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| | John H. Scahill / MEANING-CONSTRUCTION AND HABITUS |
 | | Habitus, a durable but transposable system of socially acquired dispositions, functions practically as the generative source of a universal capacity such that agents act inventively when they encounter conditions identical or analogous to those producing the habitus in the first place. |
 | | Habitus is at one and the same time a deep structural; open-ended capacity for generating actions (analogous to Chomskys generative grammar) and a durable system of dispositions acquired through experience. |
 | | Habitus, the product of conditioning factors, especially early conditioning, is the condition of the production of thoughts, perceptions, and actions which are not themselves the direct product of conditioning factors, though once manifested, such thoughts, perceptions and actions are made intelligible by the same cognitive and motivating structures that make up the habitus. |
| www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-Yearbook/93_docs/SCAHILL.HTM (3553 words) |
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