| Summary: | The notion of agency has had an indisputable impact on contemporary sociological theory. However, little has been thought about the potential and epistemological limitations of this concept for the strategic action of the subject. This article presents these potentialities and limitations in the perspectives of Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens, as an increasingly relevant instrument to explain and understand social action and the senses and meanings involved in it. Simultaneously, it shows the importance of this concept to account for the scope of the reflective process in the strategic choice of the subject (individual or collective), who is the one who ultimately produces and reproduces society through its practices.
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