Rational Understanding Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu

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Pierre Bourdieu has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they…
• 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…
• 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…
• Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to…
• 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.

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