Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu

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

“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.”

“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 a...”

“Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears ...”

“Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to the various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, litera...”

“Such competence is not necessarily acquired by means of the 'scholastic' labours in which some 'cinephiles' or 'jazz-freaks' indulge. Most often it results from the unintentional learning made poss...”

“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.”

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

“By making social hierarchies and the reproduction of these hierarchies appear based upon the hierarchy of ‘gifts’, merits, or skill established and ratified by its sanctions, or, in a word, by conv...”

“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 tha...”

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

“You can fight the international technocracy in an efficient way only by challenging it on its very own field of activity, the economic science, and by opposing a kind of knowledge that respects hum...”

“Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.”

“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.”

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

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

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