"habitus, history turned into nature"

"... in each of us, in varying proportions, there is part of yesterday's man; it is yesterday's man who inevitably predominates in us, since the present amounts to little compared with the long past in the course of which we were formed and from which we result. Yet we do not sense this man of the past, because he is inveterate in us; he makes up the unconscious part of ourselves. Consequently we are led to take no account of him, any more than we take account of his legitimate demands. Converely, we are very much aware of the most recent attainments of civilization, because, being recent, they have not yet had time to settle into our unconscious"

- Pierre Bourdieu (citing Durkheim) 1977: 79