cleft habitus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.89 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sense of dislocation experienced when one's life conditions change drastically, for example through social mobility.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Calque of French habitus clivé, coined by French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu.