The concept of habitus is a centerpiece of Pierre Bourdieu's cultural sociology and is among the most popular conceptual imports into the Bourdieu-inspired “practice turn” in International Relations (IR). There have, however, been recurrent questions whether IR work using habitus and Bourdieu mainly “re-describe in different language” what scholars already know about world politics. This article argues that a more traditional use of habitus that pays attention to the production of habitus is key to advancing distinctly Bourdieusian and practice-based accounts of international politics. Drawing on a detailed survey of habitus scholarship in IR, the article shows how the practice turn takes a narrow view of social structure by bracketing social class, race, and gender; is preoccupied with the pedagogical labor of secondary socialization over primary socialization; and neglects the concrete embodied dimension of practice. Looking to Bourdieu's own work, this article calls for theoretically armed empirical attention to social structure, primary socialization, and embodiment. It articulates a specific strategy for this recovery: closer attention to the production of habitus by mapping the biographies of individuals and groups and relating these sedimented histories to agents’ practices and shared structures of experience.

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在国际关系中运用布迪厄的习惯

习性的概念是皮埃尔·布迪厄文化社会学的核心内容，也是国际关系（IR）中受布迪厄启发的“实践转向”中最流行的概念导入之一。然而，人们反复质疑，国际关系研究是否使用习惯和布迪厄主要是“用不同的语言重新描述”学者们已经了解的世界政治。本文认为，关注惯习产生的更传统的习惯用法是推进布迪厄主义和基于实践的国际政治解释的关键。文章根据对国际关系惯习学术的详细调查，展示了实践转向如何通过将社会阶层、种族和性别纳入狭隘的社会结构视角；专注于次级社会化而不是初级社会化的教学工作；忽视了实践的具体体现维度。展望布迪厄自己的​​著作，本文呼吁对社会结构、初级社会化和具体化进行理论武装和实证关注。它阐明了这种恢复的具体策略：通过绘制个人和群体的传记并将这些沉淀的历史与主体的实践和共享的经验结构联系起来，更加关注习惯的产生。