I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it fo… - Pierre Bourdieu

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I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

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About Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu (August 1, 1930 – January 23, 2002) was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy and literary theory to sociology and anthropology.

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Alternative Names: Bourdieu Pér Burdé P. Burdé Félix Bourdieu Pierre Félix Bourdieu
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You can fight the international technocracy in an efficient way only by challenging it on its very own field of activity, the economic science, and by opposing a kind of knowledge that respects human beings and realities towards that mutilated kind of knowledge used by the technocrats themselves.

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