Pierre Bourdieu/bourdieu%E2%80%99s Theory of Power and Practice

Famous quotes containing the words theory, power and/or practice:

    “In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”
    —Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

    “Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.”
    —Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885)

    “To know how to be content, and to be so, protects one from disgrace; to know self-restraint and practice it protects one from shame.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    Lao-tzu.