Pierre Bourdieu Quotes About Sociology

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

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Thinking, Way, Sociology

  Pierre Bourdieu, John B. Thompson (1991). “Language and Symbolic Power”, p.207, Harvard University Press

• The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Sociology, Function, Sociological

  Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press

• I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Art, Mean, Self

  "La sociologie est un sport de combat". Documentary, May 2, 2001.

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