practice theory

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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Sociological theories do not primarily differ in their subject matter, but in how they respond to fundamental problems of social order. They address, in different ways, how society is possible, how stability is maintained, how power operates—and what role individuals play within these processes. At the core are recurring axes of tension: Structure vs. agency

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