Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of….

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality th….

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

You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financia….

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician..

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

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 ….

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it..

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.

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

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to o….

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 fo….

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity..

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of a….

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence..

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think..

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences..

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness..

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects..

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself..

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons..