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Under the sociological vision of the French philosopherMaffesoli, the burning of Paris refers to the street disturbances and public violence undergone in the French capital towards the end of 2005, when a situation occurred that demonstrated social changes resulting in the end of modernism. The disappearance of political and economic structures due to social dissident insurgence is imminent. Tribes, a strongly based anthropological term, serve as a category to interpret these violent changes, civil disobedience, patriarchy, institutional des-aggregation, fragmentary roles, sublimation aesthetics, power and resistance. A complete catalogue is offered for understanding the reality of the moment of change, towards an inevitable power co-action and revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes into account the processes of social construction in classification frameworks or conceptual schemes that all societies use as a frame of reference, with its interpretive codes, that give meaning and value to what we do, think, utter and perceive. In modern societies there is conflict between a rigid classificatory frame, based upon "purity" and with quasi-naturalized distinctions, and a flexible classificatory frame, based upon ambivalence, with more blurred and permeable distinctions. Authors considered in this reflection are, among others: Durkheim, Mauss, Simmel, Derrida, Foucault, Rorty, Goffman, Bourdieu, Douglas, Zerubavel, Luhmann, Bauman, Haraway, Elias, Zizek, Jokisch and Marquard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]