FRAME, HABITUS AND DISCOURSE - COMPARING SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF PRACTICE AND MEANING

In this contribution a comparison of three scholarly concepts of pract ise and meaning (frame, habitual disposition, discourse) is made. On t he one hand parallels, divergencies and connectabilities of theories o f meaning structures are outlined. On the other hand this contribution is concerned with the conception of psychic dispositions which corres pond to social meaning structures and their contingencies. In this con text diverse concepts of habitual dispositions are reduced to a common denominator.