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Capital

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Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice: Habitus, Capital, and Social Inequality

Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice is a paradigm of social theory that explains social order as the result of everyday practices. Society does not emerge solely through objective structures nor purely through conscious action, but through the interplay of embodied dispositions (habitus), available resources (capital), and the social arenas in which actors struggle for positions

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