The Role of Habitus in Maintaining Identity

The article discusses two key concepts of modern sociology: identity and habitus. To be fair, we should note that the latter is considerably inferior in the frequency of research application. It is practically never used in publicist practice. One of the reasons is a certain conceptual complexity. The principal novelty of this article is that in addition to describing the mechanism of acquiring identity, the paper shows the relationship between habitus and identity, its key role in preserving and maintaining identity.