Pierre Bourdieu (1930 – 2002)
Acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy and literary theory to sociology and anthropology.
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Pierre Bourdieu [was] a leading French sociologist and maverick intellectual who emerged as a public figure here in the 1990's by championing the antiglobalization movement and other anti-establishment causes.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
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).
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
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.
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist, observed that elites in a society typically maintain their power not simply by controlling the means of production (ie money), but by dominating the cultural discourse too (ie a society’s intellectual map). And what is most important in relation to that cognitive map is not what is overtly stated and discussed – but what is left unstated, or ignored.
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.
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