1644: Pierre Bourdieu

“The social world is accumulated history.”

“Capital is accumulated labor (in its materialized form or its ‘incorporated,’ embodied form).”

“Cultural capital can exist in three forms: in the embodied state.”

“Like the acquisition of a muscular physique or a suntan, it cannot be done at second hand.”

“This embodied capital … cannot be transmitted instantaneously.”

“Social capital is the aggregate of the actual or potential resources which are linked to possession of a durable network.”

“The volume of the social capital possessed by a given agent thus depends on the size of the network of connections he can effectively mobilize.”

“It exerts a multiplier effect on the capital he possesses in his own right.”

“Systems of durable, transposable dispositions.”

“Structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures.”

“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.”

“Symbolic power is a power of constructing reality…”

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

“The opinion poll is, at the present time, an instrument of political action.”

“Its most important function is perhaps to impose the illusion that a public opinion exists.”

“Complete power is only realized when it is fully concealed.”

“Yesterday said ‘God is on our side’ today says ‘Public Opinion is on our side.’”

“Symbolic power is that invisible power which can be exercised only with the complicity of those who do not want to know…”

“All pedagogic action [PA] is, objectively, symbolic violence insofar as it is the imposition of a cultural arbitrary by an arbitrary power.”

“Symbolic violence can do what political and police violence can do, but more efficiently.”

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