Pierre Bourdieu died in 2002. Max Weber in 1920. Émile Durkheim in 1917. Collectively, they left behind one of the most powerful intellectual frameworks ever constructed for understanding human societies — class, action, solidarity, power, taste, networks, and the invisible forces that shape who we are and what we do.
For over a century, this knowledge sat in books. Read. Taught. Cited. Never executed.