Symbolic Violence Is Violence Wielded With Tacit

If The Sociologist Has A Role, It Is Probably More To Furnish Weapons Than To Give Lessons.

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 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.

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.

The Point Of My Work Is To Show That Culture And Education Aren't Simply Hobbies Or Minor Influences.