"Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician."
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and the Collège de France.
"The practical mastery of the logic or of the imminent necessity of a game — a mastery acquired by experience of the game, and one which works outside conscious control and discourse (in the way that. for instance, techniques of the body do)."
Pierre Bourdieu"Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it."
Pierre Bourdieu"The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences."
Pierre Bourdieu"Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think."
Pierre Bourdieu"Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness."
Pierre Bourdieu"If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons."
Pierre Bourdieu