"The function of sociology, as of every science,……" — Pierre Bourdieu

"The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden."

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.
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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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer
besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other. — Thomas Jefferson
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations,… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ...… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and… — Charles F. Haanel
Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit. — R. A. Lafferty
Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not… — Avicenna
Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled… — Aharon Katzir
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science… — Louis Althusser
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds… — Giuseppe Peano
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records… — Thomas Huxley
Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who… — Armand Trousseau

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