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

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

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

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.

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

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

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.