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Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Pierre Bourdieu

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Pierre Bourdieu
Age: 71 †
Born: 1930
Born: August 1
Died: 2002
Died: January 23
Anthropologist
Philosopher
Photographer
Sociologist
Writer
Bourdieu
Pér Burdé
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Pierre Félix Bourdieu
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