Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts

Bourdeiu's move away from structuralism was a move towards seeking to understand agents as theory-generating agents themselves rather than the objects of interpretation of academic social philosophers.

THE THINGS AGENTS DO HELP CREATE STRUCTURES, BUT THEY DO SO UNDER INFLUENCE OF THOSE SAME STRUCTURES (= products and cause)

HOW THEY REACT IS INFLUENCED BY THE HABITUS:
HABITUS = THE SET OF DISPOSITIONS OF A GROUP OF ACTORS.

THE SET OF STRUCTURES THAT INFLUENCE HOW THE AGENTS ACT ARE CALLED THE FIELD.
FIELD = A SPECIFIC ARENA THAT A GROUP OF ACTORS FIND THEMSELVES IN.


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IN THIS CASE IT IS JUST AN INDIVIDUAL ACTOR, BUT IN REALITY THERE ARE ALSO COLLECTIVE ACTORS (COLLECTIVE RESULTS FROM COLLECTIVE ACTION).

THUS IN THIS VIEW CULTURE IS MERELY THE PAST BUILT-UP PRODUCT OF THE COLLECTIVE ACTION OF THE PEOPLE IN A CERTAIN GEOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL SPACE.

HOW WE REACT TO THESE ALREADY EXISTING STRUCTURES THAT GOES BEYOND OUR CONSCIOUS MIND INTO THE PAST IS ALSO THE RESULT OF HOW THOSE PEOPLE OF THE PAST REACTED TO THEIR OWN STRUCTURES.

IN ESSENCE, THIS IS HABITUS - THE COLLECTION OF DISPOSITIONS.