describes the cultural capital of the middle classes

as defined by Bourdieu, a culturally specific way not only of doing and speaking, but also of seeing, thinking and categorising. Habitus tends to be"naturalized" in that it is taken for granted or assimilated into the unconscious so that habitus is a necessary condition of action and shared understanding.

a bodily disposition that organizes action without the actor thinking about rules

a socially shaped disposition for a human being to act, think and feel, according to certain patterns

Concept outlined by Marcel Mauss connoting both living space and habitat that describes the way in which particular social environments are internalized by individuals in the form of dispositions toward particular bodily orientations and behaviours. The habitus we occupy radically affects such basic activities as sleeping, eating, sitting, walking, having sex, and giving birth, all of which should be understood not as natural, but as a series of “body techniques” that are learned in particular social contexts, and are therefore culturally and historically specific.   Pierre Bourdieu extended this concept to talk about the relationship between habitus and social class.

Habitus is a complex concept referring primarily to the non-discursive aspects of culture that bind individuals to larger groups.