Pierre Bourdieu
Developed concepts of habitus, capital (economic, social, cultural), and field to analyze social inequality and cultural reproduction.
Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu
The most absolute of all powers is that which does not need to say anything.
The function of sociology, like that of any science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
What is 'social' is not a thing, but a relation, or rather a set of relations.
The most important thing is to transform the way we see the world.
Cultural capital is a form of capital that consists of the general cultural background, knowledge, disposition and skills that are passed on from one generation to the next.
The habitus is a system of dispositions which is acquired by individuals through their experience of the social world.
Sociology is a martial art.
The social world is a world of struggle.
Taste classifies the classifier.
The work of art is a social construction.
The intellectual is someone who intervenes in the political field in the name of values.
The state is a bank of symbolic capital.
Symbolic violence is the violence which is exercised upon a social agent with his or her complicity.
The school is an institution that reproduces social inequalities.
The media are a powerful instrument of symbolic domination.
The academic field is a field of power struggles.
The sociologist is a permanent critic of common sense.
The social world is not a natural world.
The economy is a social construct.
The market is not a natural phenomenon.