Reflexivity as a mediating element - The case of Francisco Milanez

Abstract This article aimed to discuss how Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of reflexivity was conceived, and it influenced developed by Bernard Lahire’s in his sociology. To operationalize the way is articulated, but emphasizing its development Lahire, this paper presents as an empirical case engendered José Francisco Bernardes Milanez’ biographical trajectory, a historical environmental activist from Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul. The central argument we defend that Bourdieusian-inspired has certain objectivist structuralist weight, which gives secondary role individuals’ reflection capacity agency. Despite acts mediator between structures their individual agency within actors’ social lives. In sense, reflexive capacities can be better understood analyzed considering ways individuals connect daily practices, dialectically concomitantly, with processes. emphasizes sociological analyses at level potentially more substantive if they consider structure, agency, integrated way. Finally, argue conceptual argumentative association elements two authors helps avoid false antinomies.