Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu - Page 1

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Accepting
Algeria
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The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Metaphor
Mind
World
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Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier
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Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Logic
Practice
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Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Clarity
Pay
Talent
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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Science
Function
Sociological
Sociology
Every
Hidden
Reveal
Which
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Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Order
Produce
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Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Collective Unconscious
Domination
Males
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If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Giving
Lessons
Roles
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The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Culture
Hobbies
Influence
Simply
Influences
Minor
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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Effects
Ideological
Needs
Silence
Successful
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Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Groups
Photography
Produce
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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 / Sociologist
Monopoly
Population
Significant
Television
Thinking
Facto
Heads
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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 / Sociologist
Sociology
Thinking
Way
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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 / Sociologist
Agents
Complicity
Symbolic
Tacit
Unconscious
Victim
Violence
Between
Both
Insofar
Remain
Victims
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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 / Sociologist
Art
Mean
Self
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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 / Sociologist
Doe
Example
Reality
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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 / Sociologist
Objectivity
Photography
Reality
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The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Class
Differences
Important
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The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Education
Affirmation
Differences
Groups
Hobbies
Important
Reproduction
Social
Between
Show
Those
Classes
Simply
Hugely
Influences
Minor
Point
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You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Law
Loss
Suicide
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I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Art
Struggle
Understanding
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