Some prize sociological gobbledygook
I was looking through my notes on Bourdieu just now and came across this beauty of a sentence from Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction : a social critique of the judgement of taste. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 172:
As a system of practice-generating schemes which expresses systematically the necessity and freedom inherent in its class condition and the difference constituting that position, the habitus apprehends differences between conditions, which it grasps in the form of differences between classified, classifying practices (products of other habitus), in accordance with principles of differentiation which, being themselves the product of these differences, are objectively attuned to them and therefore tend to perceive them as natural.
Might it have been clearer in the original French? Thankfully Goffman who has replaced Bourdieu as one of the central theorists in my thesis is insightful while remaining one of the more readable sociologists…