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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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