"Every established order tends to produce the naturalization……" — Pierre Bourdieu

"Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness."

15 Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu

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Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and…
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…
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…
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of…
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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Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general… — Pope Benedict XVI
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a… — Pope John Paul II
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others… — Peter Singer
I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness… — Harry A. Blackmun
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not… — Confucius
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before… — Eric Hoffer
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain… — Emma Thompson
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a… — Eric Metaxas
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a… — Daniel Kehlmann
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice. — Jonathan Haidt

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