Pierre Bourdieu
Developed concepts of habitus, capital (economic, social, cultural), and field to analyze social inequality and cultural reproduction.
Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu
The habitus is the product of the work of inculcation and appropriation.
Social space is a field of forces and a field of struggles.
The most intolerable thing for those who regard themselves as the possessors of legitimate culture is the sacrilegious reuniting of tastes which taste cannot tolerate.
To abolish the causes of inequality is to abolish inequality itself.
The university is a microcosm of society.
Doxa is the point of view of the dominant.
The gaze is an act of social magic.
In the logic of practice, the agent is not a puppet.
The field of power is the site of struggles over the distribution of capital.
Misrecognition is the basis of all social order.
The scholastic point of view is the point of view of the idler.
Intellectuals are agents of the universal.
The practical sense is the sense of the game.
Capital is accumulated labor.
The illusion of freedom is the greatest illusion.
Social suffering is the suffering of the dominated.
The state is the guarantor of symbolic violence.
Reflexivity is the condition of sociological knowledge.
The market of symbolic goods is a field of competition.
The body is the most indisputable materiality.