Pierre Bourdieu

“Neoliberal economics, the logic of which is tending today to win out throughout the world thanks to international bodies like the World…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

— Pierre Bourdieu

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

— Pierre Bourdieu

“Verbal virtuosities or the gratuitous expense of time or money that is presupposed by material or symbolic appropriation of works of art,…

— Pierre Bourdieu

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had…

— Pierre Bourdieu

“Those who suppose they are producing a materialist theory of knowledge when they make knowledge a passive recording and abandon the “active…

— Pierre Bourdieu

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

— Pierre Bourdieu

“To subject to scrutiny the mechanisms which render life painful, even untenable, is not to neutralize them; to bring to light contradictions…

— Pierre Bourdieu

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

— Pierre Bourdieu

You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted…

— Pierre Bourdieu

“Every established order tends to make its own entirely arbitrary system seem entirely natural.”

— Pierre Bourdieu

“Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.”

— Pierre Bourdieu

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

— Pierre Bourdieu