Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieuwas a sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and renowned public intellectual...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth1 August 1930
CountryFrance
I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.
giving lessons weapons
If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
thinking television population
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
mind world metaphor
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
reality world example
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.
agents violence victim
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.
art mean self
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.
order produce
Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.
sociology function sociological
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
suicide loss law
You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.
taste
Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier
thinking way sociology
The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.
collective-unconscious males domination
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.
class differences important
The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent 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.