Interpretation Of Bourdieu’s Concept Of Social Practice

There has been opposition of subjectivism and objectivism in the history of thedevelopment of the sociology, in order to overcome and transcend this opposition, thefamous French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu proposed affect a very wide range ofsocial practice theory. Social practice theory of Bourdieu’s absorption ofphenomenology, a combination of structure and constructivism, as well as thethinking of the classic sociological period. Practice as a product of the dialecticalrelationship between structure and action. Practice is not objectively determined, it isnot the product of free will.Bourdieu’s theory of practice designed to overcome the opposition ofsubjectivism and objectivism, objectivism a social physics perspective society, thesociety as an objective structure, can be grasped from the outside; subjective fromindividual decision-making, cognitive, and action to understand the social world. Togo beyond this opposition, Bourdieu proposed the the relationalism methodology andthe theory of social practice field, habitus and capital as the main content.This total consists of five chapters. The first chapter is the introduction,introduces Bourdieu practice Theoretical background and past scholars study andinterpretation of Bourdieu’s theory, which most of the studies just described the kindof Bourdieu’s practice theory, and no to make some impartial appraisal.The second chapter introduces the theoretical origins of Bourdieu’s life andsocial practice thinking.Bourdieu’s practical ideas to absorb the philosophy, sociologyof the classic period of the important thinking.The main content of the third chapter discusses the theory of Bourdieu practice.The first Field, the concept refers to the network or drawings of the objective relationsbetween the various locations, members of society struggle for control of valuableresources field. Followed by the Habit, the concept refers to the long-termaccumulation in the minds of members of society, a kind of "action schemata" can guide the movement of people, to enable people to take a targeted strategy. Bourdieu’sview that this concept refers to the sustainable,tendency to convert the system. Theconcept of Capital, Bourdieu more emphasis on non-economic factors of capital, withemphasis on social capital and symbolic capital.Field, capital and habitus have close ties, the interaction of the three lead topractice. Capital exists in the Field of integration and habitus, but also has a solidfoundation; field provided a venue for practice, the field is the force field, is the fieldof competition, the people present at the domain you want to access to capital Tostrive for a certain position to maintain a presence in the domain. The relationshipbetween field and habitus is dialectical, the two are mutually defined, the dispositionto cultivate a habitus, and temperament only the presence of domain formation in thefield.After discusses the field, capital and habitus, Bourdieu also proposed to establisha kind of a reflective sociology, which in the fourth part. Bourdieu think withreflection, you first need to control researchers to bring the value of the object ofstudy from their social background, tendencies, attitudes and so on.; Second, shouldthe Perspective of the field applied to the practice of social science itself and so on.After in the analysis of the main content of the theory of Bourdieu practice,Thefifth chapter to make a brief assessment of this theory.In this paper view thatBourdieu’s theory combines subjectivism and objectivism two aspects of amongsociology.For the role of sociological research has inspired, but also contribute to acomprehensive understanding of social reality, normative sociological study. Ofcourse, the social practice theory of Bourdieu there is a certain inadequate.That is tosay, Bourdieu is in empirical research and not in strict accordance with the theoryproposed by him, his empirical research is still the color of the economicdeterminism.