Pierre Bourdieu

"What appears as rational choice is often the enactment of habitus."

"The field of literature privileges certain forms of expression while silencing others."

"Social change requires not just individual conversion but collective transformation."

"The school system's claim to meritocracy obscures its function in reproducing hierarchy."

"Distinction is achieved not through what you have but through what you know to appreciate."

"The state is the culmination of the process of symbolic unification of society."

"What we mistake for nature is often the sedimented history of social relations."

"The field of religion functions to naturalize social hierarchies through the sacred."

"Creativity is constrained by the forms and conventions already established in a field."

"The struggle for recognition takes place within structures that have already been established."

"What separates the intellectual from the merely clever is their commitment to reflexivity."

"The practice of sociology requires a kind of intellectual courage and humility."