"Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier"
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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…
- 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.
- I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that…
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