Function Quote by Pierre Bourdieu Download Open image “The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.” — Pierre Bourdieu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Function Science Sociology
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped… — Sam Richards Copy Share Image
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action. — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Sociology presupposes a certain awareness that human events have different levels of meaning, some of which are hidden from the consciousness of everyday life — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have had no polemic interest in writing this book. It would be foolish to deny, however, that our enthusiasm for the present state… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with a goal… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image