Tray Norman Habitat vs Habitus

Lane's concept of habitat bs habitus gives specific meanings to each word. Habitat is the place itself, where people dwell in. Habitus is the way we end up dwelling there. Habitus is a ritualized way of perceiving reality. We conduct ourselves according to our habitat. There is also the concept of being "re-placed" which means being uprooted and brought to a different place where new ways of dwelling are found. This is a concept that I can easily relate back to my own life. I went to the exact same school system from kindergarten until graduation from high school, and lived in the exact same town for thirteen years. The town where I grew up in, Hopewell, VA, was my habitat. I became custom to a ritual of dwelling, going to school, going to practices and games, and hanging out with the same friends throughout all of school. I perceived reality as whatever was going on at home and any other small town was not important to me. I recently have been uprooted from that habitat and have been re-placed in a dorm room. This was a scary experience at first since I had no friends at the beginning of college. I had to find new ways to dwell fast, or I would not fit in. It was a lot easier than I was expecting, and now the same home town i grew up in is not my habitat. My new habitat is at Christopher Newport University and that is where I have formed new rituals and new ways of perceiving reality.