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Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

Pierre Bourdieu (1984). “Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste”, p.6, Harvard University Press

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

Pierre Bourdieu, John B. Thompson (1991). “Language and Symbolic Power”, p.207, Harvard University Press

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

Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press

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

Pierre Bourdieu (1977). “Outline of a Theory of Practice”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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

Pierre Bourdieu (1977). “Equisse D'une Théorie de la Pratique”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

Pierre Bourdieu (1977). “Equisse D'une Théorie de la Pratique”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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

Pierre Bourdieu (1990). “The Logic of Practice”, p.86, Stanford University Press

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

Pierre Bourdieu's speech at the conference of the AFEF in Limoges, October 30, 1977.

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

"Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power".

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

Pierre Bourdieu (2014). “Picturing Algeria”, p.32, Columbia University Press