Taste and action come from habitus: dispositions learned through social position, played out in competitive fields.
The longer story
Bourdieu's great insight: what looks like free choice is structured by position in social space. Taste isn't personal; it's class habitus. Cultural capital operates like economic capital—some have it, some don't. 'Distinction' showed how aesthetic preferences reinforce social hierarchies. Fields—art, academia, journalism—have their own logics of competition and legitimacy. For any research on creative fields, Bourdieu provides essential tools: what capitals are at stake? What positions exist? How do trajectories through the field shape what seems possible or desirable?