Habitus and Field

"Thinking Tools"

HABITUS, the subjective element of practice.
This concept signifies the "generative schemes" (themselves structured and structuring) acquired in the course of individual life trajectories.

FIELD: the objective network or configuration of relations (again structuring and structured) to be found in any social space or particular context.

Separately they represent respectively the subjective and objective aspects of social phenomena.
It will be stressed that both concepts should be seen as being inseparable, mutually consituted and always interpenetrating to produce the ontologically complicit relation referred to above.