Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

Pierre Bourdieu — French Sociologist born on August 01, 1930, died on January 23, 2002

Pierre Bourdieu was a sociologist, anthropologist,philosopher, and renowned public intellectual... (wikipedia)

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

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

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.

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.

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

Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

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