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“The history of the transformation of myth into religion (ideology) is not separable from the history of the constitution of a corps of specialized producers of religious rites and discourses, i.e. the progress of the division of religious labour, which is itself a dimension of the progress of the division of social labour, and hence the division into classes.”

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Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu, born on August 1, 1930 and died on January 23, 2002, was a prominent French sociologist. His research covered various fields such as social structure, cultural capital, and symbolic power, which had a profound impact on contemporary sociology. more

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