...universal and unchanging values, but, as Bourdieu warns, "every power which manages to impose meanings ... as legitimate by concealing the power relations which...specifically symbolic force to those power relations" (vi). A case in point is that "anyone who teaches" will "be treated [by students] as a father" (19),...

...violence and the State's monopoly of the legitimate use of physical violence" (1977: xii). More formally: Every power to exert symbolic violence, ie, every...concealing the power relations which are the basis of its forces, adds its own specifically symbolic force to those power relations. (1977: 4) Following from...

...above is predicated on an even more basic proposition, stressing the two-fold nature of arbitrariness: 'Every power to exert symbolic violence, ie every...specifically symbolic force to those power relations.' What is significant is the importance attached by the authors to the gloss which follows this axiom....

...power that manages to impose itself as legitimate by concealing the power relations that are the source of its force) adds its own specifically symbolic force to those power relations is only an apparent exception to the principle of the conservation of social energy. 34 Napoleon provides...

...reproduction of inegalitarian social arrangements. In a key passage Bourdieu offers the following definition: Every power to exert symbolic violence, ie every power...specifically symbolic force to those power relations. (Bourdieu and Passeron 1977:4) Thus, for Bourdieu, symbolic power legitimizes economic and political...

...education).40 This pedagogic action they see as a manifestation of "symbolic violence," which they define as "every power which manages to impose meanings and...power relations which are the basis of its force," thus adding "its own specifically symbolic force to those power relations."41 It follows that "All...

...education). 40 This pedagogic action they see as a manifestation of "symbolic violence," which they define as "every power which manages to impose meanings and...concealing the power relations which are the basis of its fon:e," thus adding "its own specifically symbolic force to those power relations." 41 It follows that...

...lawyers can gel some guidance from Beckstorm > 1985. 19891. 4. Bourdieu and Passeron t1990:41 write, "every power which manages to impose meanings and...specifically symbolic force to those power relations." REFERENCES Abu,Lughod. Lila. 1990. The romance of resistance: Tracing transformations of power through...

...written work and in whole-class discussions. Bourdieu and Passeron's (1990) main proposition is that 'every power which manages to impose meanings and...specifically symbolic force to those power relations' (p. xv) (original emphasis). Education in the broadest sense encompasses more than formal schooling,...

...theoretical term — "symbolic violence" — which refers to the act of "imposing] meanings and imposing] them as legitimate by concealing the power relations which are the basis of [the actor's] force."256 Thus, "symbolic violence" refers to representing a situation one way when...