Smoothing the subjective differences between Archer and Bourdieu: beyond practical sense and returning from the reflexivity modes

Abstract

The following article will show a point of convergence between two theories of subjectivity theoretical and temporally spaced. This is placed on the structure of primary concerns of Margaret Archer with the idea of system dispositions of habitus of Pierre Bourdieu, where the main discussion is about the reflective process Archer or the practical sense of Bourdieu. However, this apparent dichotomy between practical sense and reflexive process, is in no way of determining a theoretical choice, as Bourdieu not only accepts conditions of a reflective process in habitus, but the modes of reflexivity of Archer are too formal to explain the process of design of practices. Thus, overcoming this problem, theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Margaret Archer can converge in the historical and contextual generation of personal identities of individuals, that like object of sociological theorizing helps explain the action process of the agents in relation with social fields.