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.
• The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
• 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…
• Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier
• The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
• Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
• You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial…
• 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.
• Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.
• The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
• Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.
• The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
• 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…
• Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.
• Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

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