The stricken category develops a common attitude and a culture or "habitus"

A habitus is a socially shaped disposition for a human being to act, think and feel, according to certain patterns. It is a way of performing, feel and think that is peculiarwithin a group, compared to others, and that is considered ”natural” within the group. Habitus comprise sense of justice, aesthetic preferences, language patterns, posture and ways of doing things. People with similar habitus feel at home with eachother (without always being able to explain why), while they feel strange together with people with different habitus. Habitus is shaped through experience.

A group-specific habitus is a great asset for a peoples’ movement. For it is a kind of common reference within the movement, a resource for the ”we” that keeps the movement together.

Reading
Loïc Wacquant, Body and Soul, Oxford University Press 2004