| Summary: | The politics of habitus is usually associated with Bourdieu’s “sociologically
political” studies, mainly developed in the 1970s as a framework through
which this French sociologist analyzed political opinions of French citizens,
by underlining social conditions that generate certain political
dispositions, and consequently attitudes towards politics, political
preferences, and political practices. These studies made us aware that
political action should be mindful not only of institutions, but of
dispositions as well. This paper aims to portray different aspects of the
politics of habitus, by linking it to research which originally generated the
concept, but also by tracing its further development exemplified by some of
the following concepts: the necessity of universalizing economic and social
conditions of the access to the universal, the idea about the sociologically
founded utopia, the demand for the establishment of a “real state” - all to
be found in later Bourdieu’s work. This paper analyzes politics of habitus
from the social emancipatory perspective and raises questions about the role
science can and should have in realising such a project. First part of the
paper examines Bourdieu’s class analysis and its potentials in providing
realistic knowledge about the social world, and the second part explores
concrete steps that politics based on such knowledge could take. [Projekat
Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 43007]
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