In this article, we would like to address the most important contributions made by Pierre Bourdieu on the sociology of hidden violence, which is one of the valuable studies that characterize his theoretical legacy. In it, we presented the conceptual approach to symbolic violence, and then the theories behind it, so that we may come to the element of the school's ideology, which is It is a fertile field for the manifestation of this type of violence that produces classism and inequality and the selection of its heirs, according to Bourdieu.

symbolic violence, school ideology, class, educational action, the authority of symbols, cultural capital.