Top 25 Pierre Bourdieu Quotes
#2. The field as a whole is defined as a system of deviations on different levels and nothing, either in the institutions or in the agents, the acts or discourses they produce, has meaning except relationally, by virtue of the interplay of oppositions and distinctions.
Pierre Bourdieu
#3. Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
Pierre Bourdieu
#4. 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.
Pierre Bourdieu
#6. I have analyzed the peculiarity of cultural capital, which we should in fact call informational capital to give the notion its full generality, and which itself exists in three forms, embodied, objectified, or institutionalized.
Pierre Bourdieu
#7. Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.
Pierre Bourdieu
#8. Femininity is imposed for the most part through an unremitting discipline that concerns every part of the body and is continuously recalled through the constraints of clothing or hairstyle.
Pierre Bourdieu
#9. The radical questionnings announced by philosophy are in fact circumscribed by the interests linked to membership in the philosophical field, that is, to the very existence of this field and the corresponding censorships.
Pierre Bourdieu
#10. Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.
Pierre Bourdieu
#11. 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.
Pierre Bourdieu
#12. The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
Pierre Bourdieu
#13. In the case of sociology however, we are always walking on hot coals, and the things we discuss are alive, they're not dead and buried
Pierre Bourdieu
#14. The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.
Pierre Bourdieu
#15. The essentially contradictory phrase 'legitimate autodidacticism' is intended to indicate the difference in kind between the highly valued 'extra-curricular' culture of the holder of academic qualifications and the illegitimate extra-curricular culture of the autodidact.
Pierre Bourdieu
#16. Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.
Pierre Bourdieu
#17. The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
Pierre Bourdieu
#18. Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.
Pierre Bourdieu
#19. The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
Pierre Bourdieu
#21. Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
Pierre Bourdieu
#22. I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.
Pierre Bourdieu
#23. Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.
Pierre Bourdieu
#24. In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.
Pierre Bourdieu
#25. If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
Pierre Bourdieu
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