Pierre Bourdieu Quotes
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.
The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.
Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.
I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.
