Pierre Bourdieu quotes
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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 BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu (1977). “Equisse D'une Théorie de la Pratique”, p.188, Cambridge University Press
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“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : "On male domination" by Pierre Bourdieu, mondediplo.com. October 1998.
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“Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu (1977). “Outline of a Theory of Practice”, p.115, Cambridge University Press
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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 BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.18, The New Press
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“Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.”
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : "Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power".
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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 BourdieuSource : "The Intellectual Class Struggle". New York Times, January 6, 2001.
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“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier”
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu (1984). “Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste”, p.6, Harvard University Press
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“If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.”
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu's speech at the conference of the AFEF in Limoges, October 30, 1977.
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“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.”
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu (1977). “Equisse D'une Théorie de la Pratique”, p.91, Cambridge University Press
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“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.”
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press
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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 BourdieuSource : "La sociologie est un sport de combat". Documentary, May 2, 2001.
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“The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.”
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“Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.”
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu (2014). “Picturing Algeria”, p.32, Columbia University Press
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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 BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press
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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.”
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“Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.”
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu (1990). “The Logic of Practice”, p.86, Stanford University Press
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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 BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu (1990). “The Logic of Practice”, p.64, Stanford University Press
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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
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