A definition of habit for socio-economics

Fleetwood, Steve

Abstract

The paper argues that it is a mistake to define habit as behaviour or action; as a regular conjunction of actions; as a stock; as a form of automaticity (although habit is acquired and activated automatically); as a tendency, propensity or disposition (even though habit acts tendentially); as a mechanism; and as a process (even though habit is acquired and activated via several processes). A taxonomic definition is provided wherein habit is a cognitive representation of a cue-action response.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 8, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jul 29, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Sep 24, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 28, 2021
• Journal: Review of Social Economy
• Print ISSN: 0034-6764
• Electronic ISSN: 1470-1162
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 131-165
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2019.1630668
• Keywords: Habit; psychology; cognition; representation
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7833732