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

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 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 aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

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.