Pomiędzy klasą a tożsamością: habitus, emocje i zmiana. Koncepcja structure of feeling Raymonda Williamsa w perspektywie teorii klasowej Pierre’a Bourdieu
Between class and identity: habitus, emotions, and change. Raymond Williams’s concept of structure of feeling in the light of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of class

Author(s): Monika Gnieciak, Kazimiera Wódz
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: In social theory of the last several years, there has been a return to the category of class:its definition, range, and meaning have been analyzed. The authors of this article deal with thepart of the discussion whose key element is cultural practice that delineates class distinctions onthe level of unconscious reproduction of social inequalities. The concepts, inspired by Bourdieu’stheory, are embedded in class inequalities — constantly renewed through a hierarchically variedcharacter of social tastes that work beyond the level of consciousness and will. The articleattempts at proposing the broadening of thus understood class, undertaken by John Kirk, a researcherof British working class, and linking it with the category of the habitus and emotionaland moral aspects. In his theory, Kirk paid attention to the fact how Bourdieu’s theory of classand Williams’s theory of structure of feelings complemented each other. The theory of structureof feelings is a sense of deep community which enables favorable communication, that is, it pointsto the ways of identifying values in a given community, as well as enables to grasp their relationswith the already institutionalized and systematized beliefs. Similarly to habitus, it is formed onthe basis of a sense of community that does not have to be aware of itself in terms that are usuallyascribed to class awareness, and at the same time, it provides evidence on significant life experiences(as well as attitudes towards them) of groups or communities in a certain time by definingthe meaning of particular social events in the process of historical change and continuity.

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