Editing Pierre Bourdieu (section)

===Reconciling the objective (field) and the subjective (habitus)===
Amongst any society of individuals, the constant performance of dispositions, trivial and grand, forms an observable range of preferences and allegiances, points and vectors. This spatial metaphor can be analysed by sociologists and realised in [[Diagram|diagrammatic form]].<ref group="lower-roman">As when Bourdieu plots "the space of the faculties" in French higher education, in {{cite book|last=Bourdieu|first=Pierre|title=Homo Academicus|publisher=Polity|year=1988|isbn=978-0-7456-0831-0|location=Cambridge, UK|page=50}}</ref> Ultimately, conceptualising social relations this way gives rise to an image of society as a web of interrelated spaces. These are the '''social fields'''.

For Bourdieu, habitus and field can only exist in relation to each other. Although a field is constituted by the various social agents participating in it (and thus their habitus), a habitus, in effect, represents the transposition of objective structures of the field into the subjective structures of action and thought of the agent.

The relationship between habitus and field is twofold. First, the field exists only insofar as social agents possess the dispositions and set of perceptual schemata that are necessary to constitute that field and imbue it with meaning. Concomitantly, by participating in the field, agents incorporate into their habitus the proper know-how that will allow them to constitute the field. Habitus manifests the structures of the field, and the field mediates between habitus and practice.

Bourdieu attempts to use the concepts of habitus and field to remove the division between the subjective and the objective. Bourdieu asserts that any research must be composed of two "minutes," wherein the first minute is an objective stage of research—where one looks at the relations of the social space and the structures of the field; while the second minute must be a subjective analysis of social agents' dispositions to act and their categories of perception and understanding that result from their inhabiting the field. Proper research, Bourdieu argues, thus cannot do without these two together.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-o4DwAAQBAJ&q=bourdieu+two+minutes&pg=PA403|title=The Science of Qualitative Research|last=Packer|first=Martin J.|date=16 November 2017|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781108417129}}</ref>