Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.

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

Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.

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

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.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

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