Culture as a Map

It is sig­nif­i­cant that “cul­ture” is some­times described as a map; it is the anal­ogy which occurs to an out­sider who has to find his way around in a for­eign land­scape and who com­pen­sates for his lack of prac­ti­cal mas­tery, the pre­rog­a­tive of the native, by the use of a model of all pos­si­ble routes.

— Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 1977