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The sociologist Pierre Bourdieu said that the habitus consists of the hexis, a person's carriage and speech , and the mental habits of perception, classification, appreciation, feeling, and action. [2] [3] The habitus allows the individual person to consider and resolve problems based upon gut feeling and intuition. This way of living (social ...
"Having" (hexis) means (a) In one sense an activity , as it were, of the haver and the thing had, or as in the case of an action (praxis) or motion; for when one thing makes and another is made, there is between them an act of making. In this way between the man who has a garment and the garment which is had, there is a "having (hexis)."
Habitus is also influenced by external individual forces, such as confronting a new social norm, or a new way of doing things. Like structure, habitus is also the product of historical events. [5] The embodied component of the habitus is the hexis. It is manifested as an individual's gait, gesture, postures, accent etc.
The evolution of cognition is the process by which life on Earth has gone from organisms with little to no cognitive function to a greatly varying display of cognitive function that we see in organisms today. Animal cognition is largely studied by observing behavior, which makes studying extinct species
Habit, equivalent to habitus in some applications in biology, refers variously to aspects of behaviour or structure, as follows: In zoology (particularly in ethology ), habit usually refers to aspects of more or less predictable behaviour , instinctive or otherwise, though it also has broader application.
Progression of Animals (or On the Gait of Animals; Greek: Περὶ πορείας ζῴων; Latin: De incessu animalium) is one of Aristotle's major texts on biology. It gives details of gait and movement in various kinds of animals, as well as speculating over the structural homologies among living things.
A wheeled buffalo figurine—probably a children's toy—from Magna Graecia in archaic Greece [1]. Several organisms are capable of rolling locomotion. However, true wheels and propellers—despite their utility in human vehicles—do not play a significant role in the movement of living things (with the exception of the corkscrew-like flagella of many prokaryotes).
In sanguineous animals this is the region about the heart; for all sanguineous animals possess a heart, and both movement and the dominant sense-perception originate there. As for movement, it is clear that breathing and in general the process of cooling takes its rise here, and that nature has supplied both breathing and the power of cooling ...