Pierre Bourdieu
Developed concepts of habitus, capital (economic, social, cultural), and field to analyze social inequality and cultural reproduction.
Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu
The intellectual is a critical conscience of society.
The social sciences are a weapon.
The sociologist must be a permanent troublemaker.
The world is full of symbolic violence.
The social world is a world of power relations.
The artist is a producer of symbolic goods.
The intellectual is a critical intellectual.
The state is a field of power.
Symbolic power is a power that is not perceived as power.
The school is a place of reproduction of social hierarchies.
The media are a tool of social control.
The academic field is a field of competition.
The sociologist must be a permanent questioner.
The social world is a world of practices.
The economy is a field of power relations.
The market is a social institution.
The intellectual is a public intellectual.
The social sciences are a critical tool.
The sociologist must be a permanent provocateur.
The world is full of symbolic struggles.