habitus

• Habitus refers to the learned taked for granted ways of thinking being and acting shared by a particular social class
• habitus includes

  your outlook on life, preferences about lifestyle and consumption etc
• a groups Habitus is formed in response to its position in the class structure
• the m/c have the powwer to define its habitus as superior and impose it on the education system, as a result schools place a higher valuue on middle class tastes and preferences