RESC - Book 1 - 5

1.  The Twofold Arbitrariness of Pedagogic Action

"1.  All pedagogic action (PA) is, objectively, symbolic violence insofar as it is the imposition of a cultural arbitrary by an arbitrary power."

- PAs - can include that of diffuse education, family education, institutionalized education
- Applies to "any social formation, understood as a system of power relations and sense relations between groups or classes"

"1.1  PA is, objectively, symbolic violence: first insofar as the power relations between the groups or classes making up a social formation are the basis of the arbitrary power which is the precondition for the establishment of a relation of pedagogic communication, i.e. for the imposition and inculcation of a cultural arbitrary by an arbitrary mode of imposition and inculcation (education)."

- PA is symbolic violence (SV) in that:
--  Power relations (PR) between groups or classes (G/C) making up a social formation (SF) are the basis of the arbitrary power (AP), the precondition for the est. of a pedagogic communication relation (PCR).
--  Biological dimension of pedagogic imposition (PI) is not non-existent, but social determinations which specify PCR must be accounted for.

1.1.2  - PA's specifically symbolic effect (SSE) can only be produced when social conditions (SC) for imposition and inculcation are provided

1.1.3 - The PA placed in dominant PA (DPA) position within system of PA's (SPA) is "the one which most fully, thought always indirectly, corresponds to the objective interests (material, symbolic, and, in the respect considered here, pedagogic) of the dominant groups or classes, both by its mode of imposition and by its delimitation of what and on whom, it imposes."

- The structure of power relations (PR) and symbolic relations (SR) between pedagogic agencies define the symbolic strength of a pedagogic agency
- This structure expresses the PR between G/C making up the SF
- "It is through the mediation of this effect of domination by the dominant PA that the different PAs carried on within the different groups or classes objectively and indirectly collaborate in the dominance of the dominant classes."