Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu

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Pierre Bourdieu was a sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and renowned public intellectual.
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I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to c...

Pierre Bourdieu

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

Pierre Bourdieu

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

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

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 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

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

Pierre Bourdieu

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

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

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

Pierre Bourdieu

Author Bio

  • NamePierre Bourdieu
  • DescriptionFrench sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
  • AliasesPierre Felix Bourdieu; Practice
  • BornAugust 1, 1930
  • DiedJanuary 23, 2002
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Sociologist; Anthropologist; Publisher; Essayist; Writer
  • AwardsCNRS Gold Medal