"Aristocracies are essentialist. Regarding existence as an emination of essence, they set no intrinsic value on the de…"

"Legitimate manners owe their value to the fact that they manifest the rarest conditions of acquisition, that is, a so…"

"If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons."

"The practical mastery of the logic or of the imminent necessity of a game — a mastery acquired by experience of the g…"

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

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

"Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what th…"

"I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, witho…"

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

"By making social hierarchies and the reproduction of these hierarchies appear based upon the hierarchy of ‘gifts’, me…"