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“Pierre Bourdieu a leading French sociologist and maverick intellectual who emerged as a public figure here in the 1990's by championing the antiglobalization movement and other anti-establishment causes.”

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

“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors.”

“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 .”

“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”

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

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