Pierre Bourdieu

Also known as Bourdieu, Pér Burdé, P. Burdé, Félix Bourdieu

French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)

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Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher who developed influential theories about how society works and how inequality is maintained across generations. His ideas matter because they fundamentally changed how scholars understand culture, education, and power, offering tools to explain why some groups in society have advantages over others.

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Born: 1 August 1930
Died: 23 January 2002
Works: 207

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Što znači govoriti
Le desenchantement du monde
Perspektiven des Protests
Ach Deutschland
Political Interventions

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1930-08-01
Active to: 2002-01-23

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Total plays: 461

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Quotes

“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 game, and one which works outside conscious control and discourse (in the way that. for instance, techniques of the body do).”
“Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.”
“You can fight the international technocracy in an efficient way only by challenging it on its very own field of activity, the economic science, and by opposing a kind of knowledge that respects human beings and realities towards that mutilated kind of knowledge used by the technocrats themselves.”
“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 they think.”

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date of death: 2002-01-23
date of birth: 1930-08-01
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birth name: Pierre Félix Bourdieu

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Pierre Bourdieu ( UK: /bʊərˈdjɜː/, US: /bʊərˈd(j)uː/; French: [pjɛʁ buʁdjø]; Gascon: Pèir Bordièu; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields (e.g. anthropology, media and cultural studies, education, popular culture, and the arts). During his academic career he was primarily associated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and the Collège de France.

Bourdieu's work was primarily concerned with the dynamics of power in society, especially the diverse and subtle ways in which power is transferred and social order is maintained within and across generations. In conscious opposition to the idealist tradition of much of Western philosophy, his work often emphasized the corporeal nature of social life and stressed the role of practice and embodiment in social dynamics. Building upon and criticizing the theories of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Erwin Panofsky and Marcel Mauss among others, his research pioneered novel investigative frameworks and methods, and introduced such influential concepts as the cultural reproduction, the habitus, the field or location, symbolic violence, as well as cultural capital, social capital, and symbolic capital (as distinct from traditionally recognized economic forms of capital). Another notable influence on Bourdieu was Blaise Pascal, after whom Bourdieu titled his Pascalian Meditations.