The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier
The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.
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.
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.