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

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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Pierre Bourdieu

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

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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.

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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

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The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

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Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

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It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

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The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

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