disposition

A disposition is a habit, a preparation, a state of readiness, or a tendency to act in a specified way. The terms dispositional belief and occurrent belief refer, in the former case, to a belief that is held in the mind but not currently being considered, and in the latter case, to a belief that is currently being considered by the mind. In Bourdieu’s theory of fields, dispositions are the natural tendencies of each individual to take on a certain position in any field. There is no strict determinism through one’s dispositions. The habitus is the choice of positions according to one’s dispositions. However, in retrospect a space of possibles can always be observed. A disposition is not a process or event in some duration in time, but rather the state, preparation, or tendency of a structure “in waiting”. In the field of possibilities its actual triggering has a statistical value.

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