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Pierre Bourdieu [1930-2002] French
Rank: 102
Sociologist


Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and renowned public intellectual.
Bourdieu's work was primarily concerned with the dynamics of power in society, and especially the diverse and subtle ways in which power is transferred and social order maintained within and across generations. 

Education, Science



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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
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The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. Education
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Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
103
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. Science
104
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
105
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
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The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
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I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.
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