Symbolic violence and habitus. Re-signification of the human being in the context of social reproduction from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu

Abstract

The context of violence that is currently evident in the media exceeds the rationality and institutionality of all spheres of society. Bourdieu refers to this theme as symbolic violence, which has been naturalized through habitus; that is to say, the system of durable and transferable dispositions structured structures, predisposed to function as structuring structures that reproduce the condition of the human being, the constant overexposure of this to inappropriate and replicated conditions produces its degradation, suggests a resignification of this. In order not to repeat the cycle of violence in the social fabric. The research presents a mixed approach: qualitative-quantitative, based on the descriptive method, the technique for data collection; the interview and the survey, whose results show that violence has a structural characteristic, and that the greatest reproducers of this is the family, particularly in cases in which the individual has been subjected to violence. So, if a paradigmatic change is not promoted that contributes to the redefinition of the human being, violence can increase at exponential levels.