ABSTRACT
This chapter purposes theoretical concepts dealing with the questions, such what action is and what motivates it, have to be related to the underlying theoretical assumptions regarding memory. The common element here is time or the three times, that is, past, present and future. The earlier characterization is taken up anew, that is, past happenings lead to diverse sorts of experiences that govern future behavior. The most influential conception of sedimented experience over past decades in the humanities and social sciences happens that habitus developed by Pierre Bourdieu, which in turn relies on the works of some of his predecessors. As in the present case, the concepts are collective manners of interpretation that are often culturally anchored and transported, and hence comprise an outcome of the past that is relevant to action. They had undergone together a group process from the past via the present towards the future which provided them with a stock of common memories, attachments and dislikes.
