The Mind Is A Metaphor Of The

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

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.

The Difficulty, In Sociology, Is To Manage To Think In A Completely Astonished And Disconcerted Way About Things You Thought You Had Always Understood.

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.

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.