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Pierre Bourdieu
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“If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (talk at the Conference of the AFEF, Limoges, October 30, 1977)
“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 that. for instance, techniques of the body do).”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1990), In Other Words p. 60
“Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1990), The Logic of Practice. p. 86
“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 human beings and realities towards that mutilated kind of knowledge used by the technocrats themselves.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pierre Bourdieu on a strike meeting of governmental employees in Lyon/France, 1995. Quote from: Grefe C., Greffrath M. & Schumann H. Attac: Was wollen die Globalisierungskritiker? Berlin: Rowohlt p. 15
“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1998), "On male domination" Le Monde Diplomatique, Oct. 10, 1998
“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 (1930–2002) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1998: 18); as cited in: Helen Kelly-Holmes (2001) Minority Language Broadcasting: Breton and Irish. p. 8
“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.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (2000), La Sociologie est un sport de combat; cited in: John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter (2004), Football Goes East. p. xii
“The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (2001), "The Intellectual Class Struggle," New York Times, Jan. 6, 2001
“Aristocracies are essentialist. Regarding existence as an emination of essence, they set no intrinsic value on the deeds and misdeeds enrolled in the records and registries of bereaucratic memory. They prize them only insofar as they clearly manifest, in the nuances of their manner, that their one inspiration is the perpetuating and celebrating of the essence by virtue of which they are accomplished. The same essentialism requires them to impose on themselves what their essence imposes on them—noblesse oblige—to ask of themselves what no one else could ask, to ’live up’ to their own essence.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 converting social hierarchies into academic hierarchies, the educational system fulfils a function of legitimation which is more and more necessary to the perpetuation of the ‘social order’ as the evolution of the power relationship between classes tends more completely to exclude the imposition of a hierarchy based upon the crude and ruthless affirmation of the power relationship.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The aristocratic asceticism of the teachers finds an exemplary expression in mountaineering, which offers for minimum economic costs the maximum distinction, distance, height, spiritual elevation, through the sense of simultaneously mastering one’s own body and a nature inaccessible to the many.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 164; as cited in: Jan E. M. Houben (1996) Ideology and Status of Sanskrit, p. 190
“The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Legitimate manners owe their value to the fact that they manifest the rarest conditions of acquisition, that is, a social power over time which is tacitly recognized as the supreme excellence: to possess things from the past, i.e., accumulated, crystallized history, aristocratic names and titles, châteaux or ’stately homes’, paintings and collections, vintage wines and antique furniture, is to master time, through all those things whose common feature is that they can only be acquired in the course of time, by means of time, against time, that is, by inheritance or through dispositions which, like the taste for old things, are likewise only acquired with time and applied by those who can take their time.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source