Structures and habitus

From WikEd

In this section, Bourdieu elaborates on his theory of habitus which he describes as the theory of practice, "or more precisely, the theory of the mode of the generation of practices". He writes,

The structures constitutive of a particular type of environment (e.g. the material conditions of existence characteristic of a class condition) produce 'habitus', a system of durable, transposable 'dispositions', structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures, that is, as principles of the generation and structuring of practices and representations which can be objectively "regulated" and "regular" without in any way being the product of obedience to rules, objectively adapted to their goals without presupposing a conscious aiming at ends or an express mastery of the operations necessary to attain them and, being all this, collectively orchestrated without being the product of the orchestrating action of a conductor.

For Bourdieu habitus is the outcome of past structures, that is, past conditions and practices. Once established as enduring structures, these practices become objective constraints on agency even as they are constructed in time through agency. Much as Vygotsky, Bourdieu suggests that agents are predisposed to internalize this "externality" even as they construct this environment. In other words, it is not that habitus conforms to a set of transcendent rules governing behavior from 'on high' but rather that habitus is best interpreted as a socially constructed system of cognitive and motivating structures through which behavior and perception are mediated and regulated.

Question:

1. If cultures are constructed (and reconstructed) by agents over time, then is it safe to assume that equating culture with tradition is a partial contradiction?