A socio-cultural milieu in a distinct neighbourhood; the dispositions that shape the actions, bodily movements, tastes, and judgements characteristic of a social class, together with the circumstances that ensure its reproduction. Habitus is improvisatory, operating through human practices rather than through prior conscious thought. See Bridge (2001) TIBG 26, 2 on habitus and gentrification, and Marshall and Foster (2002) Canad. Geogr./Géog. canad. 46, 1 on habitus and migration.