ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that there are three forms or channels or clusters, or perhaps sedimentations, of socioecological stability at work. The psychosocial or phenomenological mechanism by which all three of these stabilizations function seems to be what one usually call habit. Habitus guides the disposition-formation process, involving a gradual process of inculcation, exactly Saussure's verb, inculquer, in which early childhood experiences are particularly important. The depersonalized rhetoric of experience of a particular position in that space is again Saussurean in the old structuralist sense. The grammatical subject of 'is' there is the classificatory system of taste; Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist said that one of the structural features that system tends to internalize is a sense of the limits of economic possibilities. The structure of social space is a product of habitualization; and that in turn would make the internalization of that structure by individual social actors a mostly unconscious internalization of collectivized habits.
