Classification Struggle
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Classification Struggle
A Classification Struggle (lutte de classification) is the conflict over the legitimate principle of vision and division—the power to impose the categories, taxonomies, and evaluative labels through which the social world is perceived, hierarchized, and governed. For Bourdieu, the capacity to name, classify, and make divisions appear natural is a fundamental form of symbolic power. Classification struggles are therefore not merely intellectual debates about terminology; they are political struggles over the very constitution of social reality, because the schemes used to classify the world simultaneously help produce the groups and hierarchies they claim merely to describe.[1] hierarchical systems and elite control.
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- Accumulation
- Mechanisms of Compliance
- Rocket Scientists' Guide to Money and the Economy
- Social Class
- System Agent
- Unfettered Accumulation
- Classification Struggle
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- Ideological Institution
- Master Narrative
- Narrative
- Subjugated Knowledge
- Symbol Factory
- Symbolic Fabric
- Symbolic Power
- Symbolic Structure
- Symbolic Violence
- System Architect
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Footnotes
- ↑ Bourdieu, P. (1989). Social space and symbolic power. Sociological Theory, 7(1), 14–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/202060