Pierre Bourdieu's Death

The philosopher Pierre Bourdieu died at the age of 71. Here is all you want to know, and more!

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Developed the concepts of habitus and symbolic violence to investigate power relations in social life.

He married Marie-Claire Brizard with whom he had three sons.

One of France’s leading intellectuals, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, has died, colleagues said on Thursday. … The daily Le Monde said Bourdieu, in recent years a champion of the anti-globalisation movement, had died of cancer at the Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris on Wednesday.

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

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Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

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

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I think if I hadn’t become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

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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.