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.

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

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

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.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

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.

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