Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness. - Pierre Bourdieu

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

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.

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 (in the way that. for instance, techniques of the body do).