Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

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Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Pierre Bourdieu
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Pierre Bourdieu
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence

Pierre Bourdieu
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Pierre Bourdieu
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

Pierre Bourdieu
If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

Pierre Bourdieu
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

Pierre Bourdieu
Artists and writers, and more generally intellectuals, are a dominated fraction of the dominant class.

Pierre Bourdieu
I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

Pierre Bourdieu
The practical mastery of the logic or of the imminent necessity of a game — a mastery acquired by experience of the game, and one which works outside conscious control and discourse (in the way that. for instance, techniques of the body do).

Pierre Bourdieu
The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

Pierre Bourdieu
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

Pierre Bourdieu
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors.

Pierre Bourdieu
Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

Pierre Bourdieu
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.

Pierre Bourdieu