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    It is not the case that Constraints internalized through habitus can constitute enabling conditions for expression, not merely limitations on a pre-social freedom.

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    • 1.Calling constraints 'enabling' obscures power dynamics; those who set the constraints benefit while others internalize subordination as natural.
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    • 2.Habitus often transmits class prejudices and exclusionary criteria that systematically restrict certain groups' expression, not enable it.
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    • 3.The claim conflates practical preconditions (needing some structure) with internalized dispositions that may actively suppress alternative possibilities.
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    • 1.Language itself is internalized constraint that enables meaningful expression; without grammar rules, communication becomes impossible.
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    • 2.Musical training internalizes formal constraints (scales, harmony) that paradoxically allow greater creative improvisation within those structures.
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    • 3.Social norms internalized through habitus provide shared frameworks that make coordinated action and mutual understanding possible.
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