We are free agents yet base everyday decisions on assumptions about the predictable character, behaviour and attitudes of others.
Social practices are characterized by regularities - working class kids tend to get working class jobs.
"All my thinking started from this point: how can behaviour be regulated without being the product of obedience to rules?" Bourdieu
In other words, Bourdieu asks how social structure and individual agency can be reconciled, and (to use Durkheim's terms) how the "outer" social, and "inner", self help to shape each other.
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