cleft habitus

English

Etymology

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

Noun

cleft habitus

  1. (sociology) A sense of dislocation experienced when one's life conditions change drastically, for example through social mobility.
    • 2025 May 24, Nancy Kolff-Rodriguez, “The irony is it takes two Frenchmen to explain Maga”, in FT Weekend, Letters, page 8:
      Bourdieu's idea of “cleft habitus”—a split between the world you come from and the one you enter—helps explain the resentment we see in Vance, who has written about feeling anxious over not knowing which fork to use at Yale […] , and about being silently judged by people who seem to belong in a world he only pretends to understand.
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