Pierre Bourdieu
Developed concepts of habitus, capital (economic, social, cultural), and field to analyze social inequality and cultural reproduction.
Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu
The social world is a world of struggles for recognition.
The artist is a creator of symbolic value.
The intellectual is a committed intellectual.
The state is a site of symbolic struggles.
Symbolic power is a power that is misrecognized as legitimate.
The school is a mechanism of social reproduction.
The media are a means of symbolic manipulation.
The academic field is a field of symbolic power.
The sociologist must be a permanent demystifier.
The social world is a world of dispositions.
The economy is a system of symbolic exchanges.
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
Nothing is more illusory than the illusion of choice.
Habitus is necessity turned into nature.
The dominated classes have an interest in pushing back the limits of what is thinkable.
Symbolic capital is any property that can be used to confer prestige or honor.
The academic world is a field of struggles.
Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.
The denial of lower, coarse, vulgar, common taste is the basis of the affirmation of a superior, refined, distinguished, taste.
Cultural capital is the most effective form of power.