Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Pierre Bourdieu:

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/pierre-bourdieu-quotes/#dfed5775

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
~Pierre Bourdieu


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/pierre-bourdieu-quotes/#e0fb6b01

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/pierre-bourdieu-quotes/#f1725330

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
~Pierre Bourdieu


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/pierre-bourdieu-quotes/#72b88fcb

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.
~Pierre Bourdieu


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/pierre-bourdieu-quotes/#d18696c3

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
~Pierre Bourdieu


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/pierre-bourdieu-quotes/#5a26a372

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
~Pierre Bourdieu


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/pierre-bourdieu-quotes/#1073cb34

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/pierre-bourdieu-quotes/#99f5f103

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