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

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

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.

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.

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.