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

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

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

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 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.

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