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ix The change in my approach to the problem of the relation of individual and society... reflects changes in the way society is understood, and even in the way the individual people forming these societies understand themselves, in short, the self-image and social make-up - what I call the habitus - of individuals.
p.182 A short digression on the problem of the individual habitus or make-up may be indicated here... This make-up, the social habitus of individuals, forms, as it were, the soil from which grow the personal characteristics through which an individual differs from other members of his society... The concept of the social habitus enables us to bring social phenomena within the field of scientific investigation previously inaccessible to them.
p.204 The structure of relationships demands of the individual a greater circumspection, more conscious forms of self-control, reduced spontaneity in action and speech in the forming and management of relationships.
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