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

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

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.

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

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.