This contribution aims at expanding Benner’s understanding of non-affirmative Bildung from a phenomenological, practice-theoretical, and social-theoretical perspective. We thereby problematize the underlying fundamental dualism between socialization, habit, and affirmation on the one hand, and Bildung, transformation, and cognitive reflection on the other, along with a critique of the model of a rational subject. First, with Schütz, Husserl, and Fink, we provide a phenomenological perspective on judgment. With Schütz, it is possible to detach judgment, and thus Bildung and self-activity (Selbsttätigkeit), from the logocentric fixation on knowledge and truth. By including the life-world, the pre-predicative dimensions of judgment, habits, and opinions can be pointed out as the foundation and as the functional mode of judgment. Bildung thus becomes describable as a formation of opinions (Meinungsbildung). The sociality of opinion as judgment is then extended in the second step with Bourdieu in a social-theoretical perspective. For this, we work out habitualized doxa as the primary, judging approach to the world. We thus determine the pre-predicative judgment as a mode of the habitus and show that habitual dispositions in social practices are the basis of the experience of the world. In this way, habit, routine, and habitus can be taken out of the dual of mere affirmation and transformation that underlies Benner’s theory. The phenomenological and practice-theoretical considerations make it possible to bring into view both the life-world, and the bodily dimensions of pedagogical practice, as well as the dimensions of power, social inequality, distinction, and privilege, and capture them in their significance for the processes of Bildung.