The power of symbols to impose, devastate, attack, suppress, and distort ways of seeing, thinking, and talking. Symbolic violence often can be more devastating than physical attack to the extent that it imposed and reinforces social harms caused by class, gender, and other status differences, strengthens social barriers, and reinforces culturally embedded domination games. It occurs through imposing a set of ideas, in an unclear manner on a recessive social category and thus this category start, in a non-conscious way, to realize, understand and monitor the social system that serves the dominant category, and serves to perpetuate the social structure that’s preferred by the dominant category. The method used in the imposition of gender and discrimination on its basis is considered one of the most prominent examples of symbolic violence.
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