Habitus Pluralis dan Modal Simbolik dalam Praktik Pluralisme di Universitas Yudharta Pasuruan

Abstract

This study examines how students at Yudharta University Pasuruan construct meaning around pluralism through Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field, and capital. Using a qualitative phenomenological approach, data were collected through semi-structured online interviews with six students, supplemented by literature review, non-participant observation, and institutional documentation. Findings show that pluralism has become an inclusive habitus shaped largely through the moral exemplarity of KH. M. Sholeh Bahruddin, whose teachings, such as the principle of kabeh iku konco, function as symbolic capital that legitimizes campus values of tolerance and openness. This symbolic capital has been institutionalized into the university's vision, policies, and academic culture, reaching students regardless of religious or social background rather than remaining confined to the pesantren community. However, the study also reveals an ambivalence: while the campus retains an Islamic pesantren identity as its dominant doxa, this dominance is expressed through inclusive values rather than uniformity or exclusion, allowing minority students to coexist without losing their own identities. These results extend Bourdieu's theory by showing that symbolic capital does not always reproduce domination but can also serve as a foundation for social integration, contributing empirically to the understanding of pluralism in pesantren-based Islamic higher education.