Pierre Bourdieu Quotes on Knowledge
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) developed the most influential late-twentieth-century sociology of knowledge through the linked concepts of habitus, field, and capital. Outline of a Theory of Practice (1972) and The Logic of Practice (1980) reframe knowledge as a practical mastery acquired through embodied training in the classed and cultured conditions of its production, irreducible to the rational-actor or rule-following models of orthodox social theory. Pascalian Meditations (1997) presents the corresponding "reflexive sociology" that turns the analytic instruments of the field of knowledge production back upon the philosopher's own conditions of utterance.
Quotes
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Attributed to Pierre Bourdieu:
“Cultural capital is at least as decisive as economic capital in shaping life chances.”
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“Sociology is a martial art.”
(2000), La Sociologie est un sport de combat ; cited in: John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter (2004), Football Goes East . p. xii -
“If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.”
(talk at the Conference of the AFEF, Limoges, October 30, 1977) -
“(talk at the Conference of the AFEF, Limoges, October 30, 1977)”
If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons. -
“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).”
(1990), In Other Words p. 60 -
“(1990), In Other Words p. 60”
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). -
“Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician .”
(1990), The Logic of Practice . p. 86 -
“(1990), The Logic of Practice . p. 86”
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician . -
“You can fight the international technocracy in an efficient way only by challenging it on its very own field of activity, the economic science, and by opposing a kind of knowledge that respects human beings and realities towards that mutilated kind of knowledge used by the technocrats themselves.”
Pierre Bourdieu on a strike meeting of governmental employees in Lyon/France, 1995. Quote from: Grefe C., Greffrath M. & Schumann H. Attac: Was wollen die Globalisierungskritiker? Berlin: Rowohlt p. 15 -
“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
(1998), " On male domination " Le Monde Diplomatique , Oct. 10, 1998 -
“(1998), " On male domination " Le Monde Diplomatique , Oct. 10, 1998”
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.