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.
- Pierre Bourdieu
Unconscious, Symbolic, Complicity
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
- Pierre Bourdieu
Think, Television, Goes, Monopoly
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't 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.
- Pierre Bourdieu
Education, Hugely, Minor, Between
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
- Pierre Bourdieu
Need, Which, Ideological, Successful
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
- Pierre Bourdieu
Practice, Which, Logic
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
- Pierre Bourdieu
Work, Education, Minor, Hobbies
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
- Pierre Bourdieu
Hidden, Reveal, Which, Function
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