Some authors have recently suggested a broadened perspective for the ecosystem services approach to include nature’s contribution to people and relational values. This paper aims to develop the notion of relational values further by bringing in theoretical contributions from sociology: namely, the recursive relationship between structure and individual cultural practices, especially the notion of ‘habitus’ developed by Bourdieu. It argues that just as culture is shared and internalised as habitus, so too are relational values. Further, it reveals that the internalisation leads not only to the reproduction of routine cultural practices at the individual level but also to the establishment of new individual cultural practices contributing to structural change. The paper argues that symbolic power plays a key role in the sharing and internalisation process. With these sociological arguments, the paper aims to incorporate contribution from social theory, often ignored in the previous literature, and to enrich the ecosystem services literature.

一些作者最近提出了生态系统服务方法的广阔视野，其中应包括自然界对人的贡献和关系价值。本文旨在通过引入社会学的理论贡献来进一步发展关系价值的概念，即结构与个体文化实践之间的递归关系，尤其是布迪厄提出的“惯性”概念。它认为，正如文化被共享并被内化为习惯一样，关系价值也是如此。此外，它揭示了内部化不仅导致个体层面常规文化实践的再现，而且导致了有助于结构变革的新的个体文化实践的建立。该论文认为，象征性权力在共享和内部化过程中起着关键作用。借助这些社会学论据，本文旨在纳入社会理论的贡献，而这些理论在先前的文献中经常被忽略，并丰富了生态系统服务的文献。