45 Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent 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.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell.