Pierre Bourdieu Quotes
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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.
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Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.
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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).
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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
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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.
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The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
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If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
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The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors.
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Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
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The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
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Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.
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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.
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I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.