Bourdieu Field Quotes & Sayings

The field as a whole is defined as a system of deviations on different levels and nothing, either in the institutions or in the agents, the acts or discourses they produce, has meaning except relationally, by virtue of the interplay of oppositions and distinctions. — Pierre Bourdieu

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift ... Womanhood is a choice. — Tori Amos

Every day is a great day for hockey. — Mario Lemieux

Public condemnation goes a long way in establishing what is and what is not acceptable in a society. The public good will prevail if the public demands it. — Laurence Overmire

around. Their sword is the — Pierce Brown

No, my advocates, my angels with sadist eyes, this is the beginning of my life, or the end. So I lean affirmation across the cafe table, and surrender my fifty years away with an easy smile. But the surety of my love is not dismayed by any eventuality which prudence or pity can conjure up, and in the end all that we can do is to sit at the table over which our hands cross, listening to tunes from the wurlitzer, with love huge and simple between us, and nothing more to be said. — Elizabeth Smart

Jessamine blew out her cheeks in exasperation. "I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her."
Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out right now and see what happens. — Cassandra Clare

Writers, and the battery of critics, scholars, and publishers supporting them, would ignore or deny the commercial and symbolic interests which drive them, so involved are they in the literary game, and so accepting are they of its unspoken rules and premises (what Bourdieu calls the field's illusio). — John R.W. Speller

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things. — C.A. Dawson Scott

The radical questionnings announced by philosophy are in fact circumscribed by the interests linked to membership in the philosophical field, that is, to the very existence of this field and the corresponding censorships. — Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu once noted that, if the academic field is a game in which scholars strive for dominance, then you know you have won when other scholars start wondering how to make an adjective out of your name — Anonymous

Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching. — James Gleick

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go. — Thomas S. Monson

A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance. — Mark Rubinstein

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. — Agatha Christie

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts. — Mark Roberts