At one point in his work, Bourdieu refers to the "opposition" between subjectivism and objectivism as dividing the social sciences and as being "the most fundamental, and the most ruinous" (1990c: 25).
He goes on to refer to them as "modes of knowledge" and declares a necessity to go beyond their mutual antagonism while perserving what has been gained from each. Both are essential, yet both offer only one side of an epistemology necessary to understanding the social world.
The world cannot be reduced to phenomenology or social physics; both must be employed in order to constitute an authentic "theory of practice".
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