practice theory

is a theory that stresses that agents may, through habituation, internalize the structures that surround them and yet they may navigate these structures strategically.

Pierre Bourdieu’s attempt to synthesize structuralism and existentialism. Bourdieu’s theoretic approach—what he called “practice theory”—stressed that, through habituation, agents may internalize the structures that surround them. They may internalize the binary distinctions that Lévi-Strauss identified and that then may become part of their habitus—part of their way of understanding the world and acting within it.

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practice theory