I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality of the categories and concepts employed by that science, is, in fact, the paradoxical product of a long collective history, endlessly reproduced in individual histories, which can be fully accounted for only by historical analysis: it… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share
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 the ‘internal’ elements, and, by reserving the title of linguistics for the latter, excludes from it all the investigations which establish a relationship between language and anthropology, the political history of those who speak it, or… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share
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
