"Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist, observed that elites in a society typically maintain their power not simply by controlling the means of production , but by dominating the cultural discourse too . And what is most important in relation to that cognitive map is not what is overtly stated and discussed – but what is left unstated, or ignored."

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