I am doing a research on teaching social skills for studies with disabilities, and I have been advised and recommended to used Bourdieu’s theories as a theoretical framework. However, I could not see a clear implication of his theories on disabilities studies except that he mentioned social inequality and social injustice. Does anyone see any connection?

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For Bourdieu, the body and its social location are interrelated, while the management of the body is core to the acquisition of status and distinction. As Bourdieu (1977, 1990) comments, the body can be understood in and through the habitus or what Jenkins (1992: 74) refers to as “habit or typical conditions or appearance, particularly of the body”. Thus, ways of talking, of moving, bodily deportment, and general demeanour are integral to habitus or, as Marks (1999: 129) notes, “the body adopts a particular habitual way of relating to the environment”. Habitus, then, seeks to focus on the corporeal, embodied, experiences of everyday life and to understand systems of interaction between individual social beings and broader social structures in the (re)production of social inequalities.

Bourdieu, P., 1977, Outline of a theory of Practice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Bourdieu, P., 1990, The Logic of Practice, Polity, Oxford.
Jenkins, R., 1992, Pierre Bourdieu, Routledge, London.
Marks, D., 1999, Disability: controversial debates and psychosocial perspectives, Routledge, London