I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell” — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“The radical questionnings announced by philosophy are in fact circumscribed by the interests linked to membership in the philosophical field, that is, to the… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or a particular… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“The entire destiny of modern linguistics is in fact determined by Saussure's inaugural act through which he separates the ‘external’ elements of linguistics from… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
