Habitus y sentido práctico: la recuperación del agente en la obra de Bourdieu. Habitus and practice sense: the retrieval of the agent in Bourdieu’s literature

Abstract

The concept of habitas plays a central role in Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice. In this paper critically explore some relevant aspects of this heuristic instrument: its philosophical and sociological origins; the reasons for its sociological reinvention; the nature of habitas as a generative matrix of the most diverse patterns of social practice; its mediation functions between structure and action; its origins from the conditions of life of social groups, the relationship between habitus, common sense and the strategies of adaptation to objective conditions; the different kinds of habitus: the role of a symbolically structured environment in the production and reproduction of habits of masculine domination. In a conclusive summary, make some suggestions about the relevance that Bourdieu’s theory of habitus may have, in my opinion, for the theory and practice of Social Work.