Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

“Habitus conceptualizes the relation between the objective and subjective or “outer” and “inner” by describing how these social facts become internalized. Habitus is, Bourdieu states, “a socialized subjectivity” and “the social embodied”
― Michael Grenfell, Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts

“Habitus thereby brings together both objective social structure and subjective personal experiences: “the dialectic of the internalization of externality and the externalization of internality”
― Michael Grenfell, Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts

“Habitus is the link not only between past, present and future, but also between the social and the individual, the objective and subjective, and structure and agency.”
― Michael Grenfell, Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts

“Bourdieu posits the notion of a “feel for the game”, one that is never perfect and that takes prolonged immersion to develop. This is a particularly practical understanding of practice – highlighted by Bourdieu’s use of terms such as “practical mastery”, “sense of practice” and “practical knowledge” – that he claims is missing from structuralist accounts and the objectivism of Lévi Strauss. Bourdieu contrasts the abstract logic of such approaches, with their
notion of practice as “rule-following”, with the practical logic of social agents. Even this notion of a game, he warns, must be handled with caution:
You can use the analogy of the game in order to say that a set of people take part in a rule-bound activity, an activity which, without necessarily being the product of obedience to rules, obeys certain regularities . . . Should one talk of a rule? Yes and no. You can do so on condition that you distinguish clearly between rule and regularity. The social game is regulated, it is the locus of certain regularities.
To understand practice, then, one must relate these regularities of social fields to the practical logic of social agents; their “feel for the game” is a feel for these regularities. The source of this practical logic is the habitus.”
― Michael Grenfell, Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts

“epistemological”
― Michael James Grenfell, Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts