Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

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

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

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness. — Pierre Bourdieu

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself. — Pierre Bourdieu

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects. — Pierre Bourdieu

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity. — Pierre Bourdieu

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier — Pierre Bourdieu

We need some heterodoxy in social science in order for them to avoid death by suffocation under dogmatism. — Bourdieu, Pierre

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

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration. — Pierre Bourdieu

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

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

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

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

In the case of sociology however, we are always walking on hot coals, and the things we discuss are alive, they're not dead and buried — Pierre Bourdieu