On the Mechanism of Production of Practice and the Possibility of Transformation of Habitus

In P. Bourdieu's theory of practice, habitus is a principal concept. Also, habitus importantly combines with other concepts of Bourdieu, for example, “field”, “capital”, etc.I examine the function of habitus and the possibility of its transformation, through probing into case-studies of Bourdieu and a scholar of the Bourdieu-school (P. Champagne). By this examination, it becomes clear that the theory of practice can analyze historical social changes. Aditionally, I intend to show that habitus, which tends to reproduce objective structures of the social world, still provides for the possibility of the transformation.