Classic Quote of the Week: Pierre Bourdieu on The Function of Sociology

Pierre Bourdieu is a white man with short dark hair and a five o'clock shadow. He wears a brown suit and white shirt

Need some inspiration? Your sociology quote of the week comes fromย Pierre Bourdieu, as featured in The New York Times.

In the first chapter ofย On Television, Bourdieu writes:

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. In so doing, it can help minimize the symbolic violence within social relations and, in particular, within the relations of communication.

A person looks out from behind a screen, only their eye is visible. Text reads: The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. - Pierre Bourdieu

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