On the Mechanism of Production of Practice and the Possibility of Transformation of Habitus

Abstract

In P. Bourdieu's theory of practice, habitus is a principal concept. Also, habitus importantly combines with other concepts of Bourdieu, for example, “field”, “capital”, etc.
I examine the function of habitus and the possibility of its transformation, through probing into case-studies of Bourdieu and a scholar of the Bourdieu-school (P. Champagne). By this examination, it becomes clear that the theory of practice can analyze historical social changes. Aditionally, I intend to show that habitus, which tends to reproduce objective structures of the social world, still provides for the possibility of the transformation.