"Outline of a Theory of Practice" Quotes
An exploration of the relationship between social structures and individual agency through the lens of cultural and symbolic practices.
anthropology | 256 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The habitus is the durably installed generative principle of regulated improvisations.
The agent is constituted in and through practice.
The practice of the art of living is not a solitary affair.
The social world is a world of positions and dispositions.
Social agents are made by their position in a structured space.
The social world is a world of relations.
The habitus is a system of dispositions, schemes of perception, and action.
Social actors are both products and producers of social structures.
The habitus is the embodiment of social structures.
Cultural capital is accumulated labor, which is socially useful.
