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

Hysteresis is the lag between field and habitus.

Book 1972

The journalistic field is a field of production of belief.

Book 1996

To think is to struggle against doxa.

Book 1980

The gift is never anything but the old debt disguised.

Book 1997

The intellectual is the one who says no.

Interview 1980

The world is full of cacophony.

Book 1998

Power is the power to impose the vision of the world.

Book 1982

The trajectory is the history of the individual.

Book 1979

Language is a form of power.

Book 1991

The family is the site of primary socialization.

Book 1984

Critique is the weapon of the weak.

Interview 1993

The economy of symbolic goods is an economy of losses.

Book 1996

To understand is to construct.

Book 1980

The peasantry is the forgotten class.

Book 1965

Neoliberalism is the end of the social state.

Interview 1998

The self is a social product.

Book 1977

Art is the product of social labor.

Book 1992

The crisis of sociology is the crisis of the social.

Book 2001

Memory is a reconstruction.

Book 1980

The dominated dominate their dominators by their submission.

Book 1972