Pierre Bourdieu

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

— Pierre Bourdieu

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

— Pierre Bourdieu

The practical mastery of the logic or of the imminent necessity of a game — a mastery acquired by experience of the game, and one which works outside conscious control and discourse (in the way that. for instance, techniques of the body do).

— Pierre Bourdieu

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

— Pierre Bourdieu

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

— Pierre Bourdieu

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

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

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

— Pierre Bourdieu

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors.

— Pierre Bourdieu

Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

— Pierre Bourdieu

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence

— Pierre Bourdieu

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