cleft habitus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sense of dislocation experienced when one's life conditions change drastically, for example through social mobility.

Word forms

cleft habitus

Etymology

Calque of French habitus clivé, coined by French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu.

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