Pierre Bourdieu

Sociology French 1930 – 2002 102 quotes

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.

Book 1977

Social space is a field of forces and a field of struggles.

Book 1990

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.

Book 1979

To abolish the causes of inequality is to abolish inequality itself.

Book 1998

The university is a microcosm of society.

Book 1984

Doxa is the point of view of the dominant.

Book 1972

The gaze is an act of social magic.

Book 1965

In the logic of practice, the agent is not a puppet.

Book 1980

The field of power is the site of struggles over the distribution of capital.

Book 1991

Misrecognition is the basis of all social order.

Book 1972

The scholastic point of view is the point of view of the idler.

Book 2000

Intellectuals are agents of the universal.

Book 1980

The practical sense is the sense of the game.

Book 1980

Capital is accumulated labor.

Book 1986

The illusion of freedom is the greatest illusion.

Book 1990

Social suffering is the suffering of the dominated.

Book 1993

The state is the guarantor of symbolic violence.

Book 1998

Reflexivity is the condition of sociological knowledge.

Book 1992

The market of symbolic goods is a field of competition.

Book 1993

The body is the most indisputable materiality.

Book 1980