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Past research connects pervasive anti-Latina/o stereotypes to school practices and teacher–student interactions. However, there is less work on how Latina/o students negotiate and adopt such pervasive stereotypes when interacting with their immigrant peers. Using work on racialization and Bourdieu's (1989) concepts of misrecognition and symbolic violence, we analyze language surrounding Mexican, Caribbean, and Central American 'ESL students' in Peers Making Change (PMC) - a peer-mentoring program initiated by social-justice-oriented multilingual students in a U.S. Southern high school. The school's racial and academic divisions and PMC's focus on student 'motivation', coupled with broader racialization of Latina/o students, enforced divisions between multilingual mentors and 'ESL mentees' and hindered social-justice-oriented program goals. Educators and Latina/o multilingual student mentors unknowingly participated in symbolic violence as they circulated racialized language about (Spanish-speaking) 'ESL students" presumed 'cultural values' and 'lack of' academic skills and motivation, indicating the micro-negotiations unfolding during responses to racial stereotypes and hierarchies in U.S. schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article starts by offering a definition of fake kindness focused on the dissociation between the behavioural components of kindness and the intent to sincerely pay some heed to the needs of others. Using the sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu, this definition is then used to articulate how fake kindness can be conceptualized as a specific form of symbolic violence. Such a view allows explanations as to how and why the prevalence and effectiveness of fake kindness vary according to microsociological norms and values. The generic definition and conceptualization of fake kindness as a form of symbolic violence are then used to discuss how nursing's enthrallment with the concept of caring and its operationalization as a moral compass likely fosters the growth of fake kindness within the profession. In this view, the institutional enforcement of propriety and well-behaved professionalism is more likely to lead to toxic environments than to healthy workplaces. We hope that being able to understand how professional norms and institutional rules are sometimes turned into social tools to enforce obedience and existing hierarchies can empower victims of those phenomena to resist them more effectively. It might also contribute to increasing the awareness of well-meaning nurses or people in position of authority who have been socialized in environments where fake kindness is normalized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article analyzes the impact of discourses surrounding Black ethnicities in tabletop role playing games. I use discursive thematic analysis to examine the descriptions of individuals represented as Black in the Pathfinder game setting, a game system related to Dungeons & Dragons. I critically analyze descriptions in the game materials that discuss in-game Black ethnicities. I demonstrate how the discourse represents a symbolic violence surrounding blackness. While the descriptions provide imagery and word use to highlight the positive aspects of the characters, the overemphasis signals stereotypes of a conceptual "other." These characters then become examples of "good Blacks" that differ from "bad" individuals. The positive imagery provokes a stereotype threat, and a need to uphold this "good Black" mentality, lest one becomes the Other. While thinking of race and ethnicity in tabletop gaming continues to evolve, even advancements fall into tropes which reinforce symbolic violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contributions to this volume showcase the current state of gender research as it relates to the embodiment and representation of beauty. In particular, the authors highlight a more open-ended concept of beauty that goes beyond esthetics. The authors call our attention to the fact that beauty definitions and standards in any given society closely reflect the distribution of power in it. For this purpose, the authors in this volume share findings of research and conducted in multiple sites in the United States (i.e., Southern California, the Midwest, the Northwest, New York City, Salt Lake City, Houston, Boston, and Washington, DC), El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic. Contributors also use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies to expand notions of beauty and its embodiment across diverse areas and experiences. The authors ask and invite us to ask ourselves how race, class, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation, and other dimensions of inequality inform our definitions of what beauty is and is not. They exhort us to interrogate who defines who and what is beautiful and why. Finally, rather than being problem-oriented, the premise of each study is to effect collective change in the ways we construe, see, represent, and embody beauty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking the Mamá Fit memes and other social media eruptions as a starting point and delving deeper into popular print media, this chapter traces the racialized and gendered practices that constitute fitness in El Salvador in a diasporic context. Importantly, the word fit is now often expressed in English, captured in the names of commercial gyms and diet advertisements; the use of this word signals an important cultural change in conventional understandings of the body in a Spanish-speaking society. By charting the emergence of this new health/beauty norm in a transnational domain, this chapter explores the relationship between shifting patterns of gendered body discipline and changes in El Salvador's location within the global political economy. This chapter argues that fitness discourse has become a subtle, but powerful, conduit for coloniality during a renegotiation of the meaning of gender to fit a neoliberal reality. The argument ends by pointing in the direction of future research to explore how this discourse is experienced in embodied practice with potentially contradictory impacts in Salvadoran society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the novel The Decline of Colonel. The novel is characterized with a dark and mysterious atmosphere. The novel narrates the story of an army officer of the Pahlavi regime. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this study explored the novel. To clarify some concepts, such key concepts of Bourdieu’s social theory were defined as capital, habitus, doxa, male dominance, and symbolic violence. The study showed that the suffocating and scary atmosphere dominating the novel indicates a controlling power behind all movements and behaviors of the characters. The controlling and dominant power manifests in some cases in the form of physical violence and reaches its peak in assassinating the colonel’s family members. In the novel, the author of uses a critical attitude towards the discourse of power and dominance to depict the the socio-political status of Iran about the Islamic Revolution. He depicts the challenges and contradictions of Iran in dealing with the drastic change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychological studies on international research students' resilience to mental distress have attracted much scholarly attention. Yet, sociological inquiries into resilience to 'invisible' pressures such as power imbalances remain limited. Drawing insights from Bourdieu's relational sociology, we recast the psychology of resilience to adversities into a sociology of resilience to symbolic violence. To delve into the latter, we surveyed 220 Chinese international Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students across Australian universities using a self-designed instrument and analysed the data through Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Findings revealed that Chinese international HDR students were drawn into a space of forces fraught with the symbolic violence of supervisor authority, English hegemony, and neoliberalism; yet, simultaneously, they ventured into a space of struggles with such forms of symbolic violence by virtue of their agency and reflexivity as well as peer and supervisor empowerment. Such resilience practice was complicated by their capital portfolio and habitual dispositions, which in turn, contributed differently to their perceptions of symbolic violence and resilience to it. We thereby offer diverse stakeholders strategies in building resilience for (Chinese) international research students within and beyond Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this paper is to analyse the relation between violence and affect in Uribe's El taller del tiempo (2003). This polyphonic novel reflects the conflicts of three generations in an upper-class family in Mexico City. The story revolves around the despotic patriarch, Miguel Primero, his son Miguel Segundo and the latter's son, Miguel Tercero. Miguel Segundo, victim of his father's cruelty, becomes in turn the 'executioner' of his own son. The lack of affection between parents and children, and also between spouses, leads to a series of emotions such as envy, anger, fear and hatred. The book is at the same time a philosophical reflection on the eternal return and the obsession with the time machine that would allow us to go back in time and change destiny. We will then try to understand how Uribe, in his play with narrative tenses, constructs a mosaic of different manifestations of both physical and symbolic violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is the first to provide insights into the experiences of gay men studying a university degree in Physical Activity and Sport Science (PASS) in Spain. Drawing on Bourdieu's categories, one-to-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 PASS students and ex-students that were subsequently studied through deductive-inductive thematic analysis. Our findings show the PASS context to be a heteronormative, masculinised and cisgender social field. Male homosexuality was almost invisible except when antigay language was used. Considering this environment, most of our interviewees chose to remain in the closet, which contributed to low levels of wellbeing and high levels of stress and anxiety. However, the few students that chose to come out experienced relief and felt included by some of their classmates and by staff. Discussed are key aspects of the dominant culture in PASS faculties and the repercussions for the mental health and wellbeing of gay students. Our research also provides new insights into the nature and prevalence of microaggressions regarding sexual orientation that will help PASS and university management develop specific strategies and programmes to foster inclusivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses three popular films from Kerala released post-2000, viz. Masala Republic (2014), Acha Din (2015), and Amar Akbar Anthony (2015) that depict the life of interstate migrant labourers. The attempt is to critically engage with the complex processes of narrativisation and characterisation, such as region, ethnicity, culture, body, etc. in Malayalam cinema to make sense of their effect on regional identity and othering processes. The construction of a regional or sub-national identity is explored from the spatial and social configurations of the 'outside' and the 'other' within the region as imagined by the Malayali public. This article also focuses on the popular imaginings of the assemblage of 'Bengali migrants' in these films and their significance in the larger societal spectrum. We argue that Malayalam films reinforce its region by othering migrants and their markers in contemporary cinema. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Müziğin insanın hayatına her an ve doğrudan etki edebilme gücü göz önünde bulundurulduğunda müzikte şiddet unsurlarının fark edilmesi ve anlaşılması önem kazanır. Yapılan kimi çalışmalarda müziğin farklı bağlamlarda şiddetle ilişkili sorunlara neden olabileceği ortaya koyulmaktadır. Bu bağlamda karşımıza çıkan temel sorunlardan birisi müzik yoluyla şiddetin estetize edilmesi ve meşrulaştırılmasıdır. Şarkı sözleri, görseller müzik aracılığıyla doğrudan bir şiddet üretebileceği gibi müziğin icrası, mekânlar, enstrümanlar, toplumsal ilişkiler vs. açısından dolaylı şekillerde şiddetin simgesel olarak üretilmesi de mümkündür. Bu çalışmada müzik üretimi ve dinleyicinin müzikle karşılaşma durumlarında birçok farklı yolla müzik bağlamında ortaya çıkan şiddet sorunlarına değinilmektedir. Müzik ve şiddet arasındaki ilişkinin ele alındığı bu çalışmada nitel yöntem tekniklerinden literatür/belge taraması kullanılmıştır. Müzik ve şiddet içerikli makaleler, doktora tezleri, kitaplar ve internet kaynakları bu kapsamda taranmıştır. Bu çalışma kapsamında ulaşılan sonuçlar şu şekildedir: Müzik ve şiddet ilişkisi çoğu zaman daha belirsizce tanımlanan bir problem alanı üretmektedir. Bireyin müzik pratikleri müziğin kitleselleşmesi ve kültür endüstrisine dönüşmesiyle birlikte özellikle kültürel tahakküm, metalaşma, simgesel şiddet açısından toplumsal ilişkilere yansıyan problemli boyutları beraberinde getirmektedir. Böylece müziğin toplumu kontrol etme, dönüştürme, baskı altına alma vs. açılardan ortaya çıkan fonksiyonları onu şiddetin bir unsuruna dönüştürmektedir. Müziğin şiddet unsurlarını kullanması ve diğer yandan müzik pratiklerinin simgesel bir şiddet alanına dönüşmesi toplumsal alana yansıyan ve toplumsal olanı şekillendiren düşünce ve pratikler üretmektedir. Bu nedenle müzik bağlamında doğrudan veya simgesel şiddetin fark edilmesi ve bunun topluma yansıyan yönlerinin ele alınması önemlidir. Müziğin tercih edilme süreçleri, pazarlama stratejileri, hangi müziğin beğenildiği, bu esnada gelişen iktidar ağları müziğin onu tecrübe edenler açısından rolünü belirleyen kritik bir noktada durmaktadır. Bu bağlamda çalışma müzik ve şiddet ilişkisinin doğrudan ve dolaylı olmak üzere farklı görünümlerinin toplumsal alandaki yansımalarını analiz ederek müziğin şiddete dönüştüğü ve aynı zamanda şiddete karşı bir konum ve bilinç üretebileceği imkanları dikkate taşımaktadır.

The study discusses the issue of symbolic violence as soft power, considering it an important topic in social sciences and political philosophy. It contributes to understand sociocultural transformations in modern societies, and its impact on identity and social behavior. The topic of domestic violence varies according to its contexts and applications. It is a field of research and analysis that focuses on the use of the language of symbols to achieve certain goals. The study deals with symbolic violence as soft power and social reproduction, and how symbols are used to convey messages of different topics, using language and culture to achieve this power and domination through it. In the philosophical context, symbolic violence is considered a manifestation of power of the habitus. The study aims at how soft power, or symbolic violence can be a powerful tool for changing social behavior and reproducing identities and values in contemporary societies. The study used descriptive approach to analyze the phenomenon and the social practice that is still practiced today in light of cultural models and sociopolitical discourses. study concluded that soft power has become a powerful social practice to change social behavior and reproduce individual and social identities. The phenomenon can be understood and analyzed by understanding the cultural and social contexts of society that practice these types of violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While scholars of migration have drawn our attention to the plight of children 'left behind' when their mothers migrate, children born to migrant women in destination countries have received far less consideration. In destinations such as Lebanon, migrant domestic worker employment – and right to residency – is governed by the kafala, or sponsorship, system which prohibits pregnancy and childbirth. Despite this prohibition, considerable numbers of migrant women do give birth, leaving them at risk of unemployment, visa and work permit cancellation, and 'illegalisation'. Compounding the situation, many mothers in this situation encounter substantial barriers to returning to home countries with their children. This paper draws on interviews with Ethiopian mothers living in Lebanon and other key informants, to examine the gendered and racialised structural, symbolic and interpersonal violence that governs the lives of these women and their children. We argue that the interlocking violence to which they are subjected results in the immobilisation of migrant mothers and their children, placing them at high risk of lifelong harm within a system that produces and reproduces global inequalities and im/mobilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Italy promulgated the 'Golfo-Mosca Law' obliging companies to introduce gender quotas on boards of directors. The goal was to analyse whether or to what extent women bring gender equality to boards' debates as well as men's reactions following the introduction of quotas. The authors interviewed 100 women directors and 34 men CEOs/Presidents between June 2020 and February 2021, referring to the concepts of 'critical mass', 'symbolic violence' and 'post-feminist sensibility' in order to interpret the data. The analysis shows that gender quotas are considered necessary for modifying boards' routines. However, the introduction of the gender equality topic in the debate is difficult, also in a critical mass situation, depending on the experience of women within boards. In relation to this, the authors identify strategies adopted by women ('avoiding', 'neutral' and 'empowering') and forms of resistance they encountered within the boards ('denial', 'second class citizenship', 'microaggressions', 'backlash and gender fatigue'), showing that the potential transformative role of women as board members is variable and limited. Men appear as the guardians of the gendered symbolic order, considering gender equality as a means to enhance companies' reputations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2020–2021, 94% of undergraduates in England took out government-backed loans to fund their higher education. The growing and widespread use of student loans in England, mounting student debt, and governments' increasing dependence on tuition fees underwritten by loans to finance public higher education raise important questions which this paper seeks to address. Specifically, the paper asks how do graduates respond to student loan debt and what does this tells us about the nature of the relationship between the graduate debtor and the state lender? We also question the usefulness of symbolic violence as a sociological lens to better understand graduates' different patterns of responses and reactions to student loan debt and their relationship with the state lender. Our analysis draws on 98 in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with English graduates between 2020 and 2021. We conclude that a more comprehensive explanation requires an exploration of both symbolic violence and structural violence and a re-appraisal of the word 'violence' to better represent the wide range of graduates' responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a new approach to theorizing and empirically investigating a phenomenon variously described by sociologists as internalized oppression or symbolic violence. Located at the intersection of internal worlds and external reality, the intrapsychic and the interpersonal and social, this object of inquiry—here termed self-negation—is crucial to many forms of societal domination. The paper explores its inner workings, analytically disaggregating it into an array of psychosocial processes drawn from the psychoanalytic theory of the defenses. Much of the work's originality consists in showing how these processes operate across multiple systems of domination and drive many and varied outward manifestations of the phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the relationship between law and power in the production of EU legitimacy. It argues that in order to account for specific challenges to EU legitimacy such as populism, a historical sociology approach is needed. After discussing this approach in the first part, this article highlights how law can play a role in processes of decivilization. In the last part, I apply this approach to the use of constitutional arguments in the debates around the Maastricht Treaty in France and Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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How to define, and conceptualise, violence? This is a problem the social sciences and humanities have long wrestled with, often framing violence as an abstract, moral, and normative question, which prevented them from capturing its complexity. Violence, we suggest, is a tensional force that is constitutive of and immanent to social, material, and spatial relations, simultaneously weaving them together and threatening to disrupt them. At the same time, violence cannot be reduced to an epiphenomenon of an overarching process such as capitalism: it does not simply result from the unfolding of structures and global processes. Rather, it takes material existence in the frictional encounter with these very structures and processes. In this article, we build on and push beyond recent theorisations on infrastructure and infrastructural violence to introduce the concept of 'infra-structural violence' – where the hyphen emphasises the relational, tensional, and somatic in-between – as a way to rework symbolic, economic, and other notions of structural violence towards an ontological, epistemological, and ethical 'statics' of violence, which is attuned to its disruptive, constructive, and preserving qualities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Child First Participation agenda in England marks a paradigm shift in youth justice. This solidifies a commitment to democratising decision-making processes with children. Drawing on interviews with children and professionals, this article explores the enablers and constraints to Child First participation in youth justice services, including how risk-oriented practices, managerialism and neo-liberal mechanisms constrain positive relationships with children. In this article, Bourdieu's concept of 'symbolic violence' is used to explore systemic problems when engaging children in co-producing youth justice interventions. The article suggests how participatory practices can provide freedom from symbolic violence for both children and practitioners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we apply a feminist interpretation and an extension of Bourdieu's theory of practice to explore the gap in our understanding between gender gap issues – the institutionalized and structural inequalities that underpin the differential access to resources by women and men – and women business owners. Drawing on an interpretivist analysis of the lived experience of women entrepreneurs who were members of women-only or open-to-all formal entrepreneurship networks, we examine their enculturation and the strategies they employ to be deemed credible players in the field. We conclude that women-only formal entrepreneurship networks have had a limited impact on helping these women overcome the isolating and individualizing effects of a gendered entrepreneurial field. Despite the promise of familiarization with and sensitization to the field, women-only formal entrepreneurship networks only serve to perpetuate and reproduce the embedded masculinity of the entrepreneurship domain in the absence of appropriate activating mechanisms or 'margins of intervention'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the power of music to directly affect people's lives at any time, it becomes essential to recognize and understand the elements of violence in music. Some studies have revealed that music can cause violence-related problems in different contexts. One of the main problems encountered in this context is the aestheticization and legitimization of violence through music. While song lyrics and visuals can produce direct violence through music, the performance of music, spaces, instruments, and social relations, it is also possible to symbolically create violence in indirect ways. This study addresses the problems of violence that arise in the context of music in many different ways during music production and the listener's encounter with music. Literature/document review, one of the qualitative method techniques, was used in the study discuss the relationship between music and violence. Articles, dissertations, books, and internet resources containing music and violence were scanned in this context. The results obtained within the scope of this study are as follows: The relationship between music and violence often produces a more vaguely defined problem area. Individual musical practices and the massification of music and its transformation into a cultural industry bring about problematic dimensions reflected in social relations, especially in terms of cultural domination, commodification, and symbolic violence. Thus, the functions of music as controlling, transforming, and suppressing society, turn it into an element of violence. Music's use of violent elements and, conversely, the transformation of musical practices into a symbolic field of violence produces thoughts and practices reflected in the social sphere and shape society. Therefore, it is crucial to recognize direct or symbolic violence in the context of music and address its reflections on society. The process of choosing music, marketing strategies, which music is liked, and the power networks that develop in the meantime are at a critical point that determines the role of music for those who experience it. In this context, the study analyzes the reflections on different aspects of the relationship between music and violence, direct and indirect, in the social field and considers the possibilities that the music can turn into violence and produce a position and consciousness against violence at the same time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We conducted a qualitative study among Eritrean refugees residing in Israel to explore the impact of armed conflict and displacement on adolescent girls' transition to adulthood. We conducted 19 interviews with young Eritrean refugee women who, as girls and young women, escaped conflict-affected Eritrea and made their way on foot, through Sudan, the Sinai desert, and Egypt to Israel. Our findings reveal how structural and symbolic violence shaped the gendered realities of these Eritrean girls throughout their migration journey. In Israel, while such violence in the forms of precarious immigration status and intimate partner violence were embedded in their everyday lives, participants also drew actively on creative strategies to resist and contest violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article was written in response to the attacks on Annie Ernaux following the announcement by the Swedish Academy of its decision to award her the Nobel Prize in Literature on 6 October 2022. In particular, it discusses the accusation of anti-Zionism, more or less explicitly conflated with antisemitism. Through the analysis of texts signed by Ernaux, the article demonstrates that this accusation is a baseless attempt to discredit the Nobel Prize laureate in public opinion. The article also calls into question other accusations made against the writer during the programme 'Répliques' by Alain Finkielkraut, on 26 November 2022, on the France Culture radio station. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Predatory publishing has recently emerged as a menace in academia. University professors and researchers often exploit this practice for their economic gains and institutional prestige. The present study investigates such existing predatory publishing practices in Pakistani public sector universities drawing on the notion of symbolic violence. For this purpose, we analyzed 495 articles published by 50 university professors in the social sciences and humanities over the period 2017–2021. We also conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 postgraduate students to gather their perspectives on publishing practices. The study shows that 69% of the sample papers were published in predatory journals, as identified in Pakistan's Higher Education Commission's (HEC) online journal recognition system (HJRS). Postgraduate students' insights inform the study that the students misrecognize these malpractices in academia as a problem what is referred to as "symbolic violence." Consequently, they engage in the process to increase their publications. Such publications enable both the university professors and the students to achieve the desired benefit, such as promotions, tenure, and academic degrees. We recommend that this practice must be altered at the policy level since it not only violates the HEC's standards for quality research but also damages the researchers' credibility and country's scientific reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article makes analytical and descriptive contributions based on experiences reported in 17 interviews about coming out of the closet with lgbt youth and nine families in Mexico City with at least one lgbt member. We use Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence to explain the inculcation process that establishes heterosexuality and cisgender identity as a sexual regime in the family, as a fundamental nucleus of learning and bodily and sexual discipline. Coming out of the closet is the moment when young people admit a silenced or highly stigmatized desire, first to themselves and then to others. This process constitutes a break with previously acquired learning. The concept of symbolic violence reveals aspects of this process that are not explained by notions such as internalized homo-lesbo-bi-transphobia or homo-lesbo-bi-transphobia upheld by those who are the object of violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shame can be understood as a mediator between individual feelings and societal conditions. In our contribution, we pose the question of how shame becomes effective in power relations and, drawing on Bourdieu's critical sociology of power, focus on two different, albeit intertwined, symbolic power relations: class and racism. How are racism and class mediated in, through and with shame? What is the role of shame in these relations? To address these questions, we refer to two interdisciplinary research projects: A qualitative-empirical study on social and educational upward mobility and a theoretical study on dealing with shame in civic education. Building on this, we reconstruct three facets of shame in the context of symbolic relations of violence: Shame as a hinge of (re)production (1), shame as inherently linked with shame defense mechanisms (2) and shame as a quality of attunement (3). The article ends with an outlook on further questions regarding the political-social situation of shame. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research aims to uncover the behavioural patterns practiced through social media platforms, especially Facebook, as the most subscribed site, it provides users with freedom of expression that may deviate from its humane origin into various forms, such as symbolic social violence against others and specifically against women, through mechanisms of symbolic violence to control them. One of the findings of this research is that the virtual world merely reflects what exists in the real world, as individuals seek to control women in the virtual world through demeaning and marginalizing actions. This negatively impacts their personality dimensions and subjects them to presumed legitimacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discourse has long been recognized as a source of symbolic violence, perpetuating power relations and reinforcing existing social hierarchies. With the rise of social media platforms, the influence of discourse on society has gained renewed attention. These platforms, while enabling social interactions, also serve as catalysts for violent behaviors, reinforcing and legitimizing forms of oppression and symbolic violence, particularly the violence of language. While the concept of toxicity is frequently used to describe this phenomenon, its meaning and connection to language often remain unexplored. This article aims to address this gap by examining the significance of toxicity in discourse and how the infrastructure of social media platforms facilitates the emergence of toxic discourses. It argues that while toxicity and violence are related, they are distinct phenomena. Toxicity, as a dimension of symbolic violence, contaminates debates and discourses, and is enabled by the characteristics of platformization in online interactions. Thus, toxicity is an effect of platforms mediating social interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes to developing a management and organisation studies perspective on political organising by focusing on: (a) populism; (b) the exercise of political power; and (c) the organisation of politics. We address two questions: in what ways have English populist politicians in the 20th and 21st centuries utilised language along with other aspects of campaign organising to build and enhance their symbolic power? And: how do populist political organisations convert symbolic power into symbolic violence? Drawing on a range of concepts from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, most specifically his work on symbolic power, symbolic violence, political ontology and the performativity of language, we conduct a comparative analysis of texts from four waves of right-wing English populism culminating in Brexit. We develop a three-step framework to explain the organisation of right-wing populism via what we term populist political methodology: (1) establishing the symbolic power of the leader and the message; (2) organising power and the division of labour of domination; and (3) reinforcing symbolic violence in targeted sections of society. Understanding how populist politics is organised can support us in resisting, challenging and disrupting right-wing populism, providing lessons for organisations campaigning against racism and xenophobia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study examines conversations developed in the virtual public sphere to identify if a user's gender affects the presence of incivility in news comment sections. By relying on a mixed-method analysis of 1,961 news comments published on a Chilean news website, we observed the extent to which uncivil speech and gendered symbolic violence traits are used to reinforce stereotypes against women. Our results show men are more likely to post uncivil comments, while women use fewer profanities, insulting language, and stereotypes. One of our most intriguing findings is that men tend to receive more uncivil replies that women, mostly because they are more likely to initiate uncivil conversations, which in turn triggers uncivil replies and increases the odds of uncivil comment threads. As such, news outlets looking for enhancing healthy discussions should encourage greater participation of female users in their comment sections. We also identified the presence of hegemonic masculinity discourses referring to women and their gender roles in society. These findings reveal that comment sections mirror a social hierarchy in which men have a position of power that allows them to be more uncivil. Consequently, the virtual public sphere replicates the dominant-subordinate relationships described by previous research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses the circularity of symbolic and structural forms of domination, feeding the field of expertise, and the school field in a country such as Italy, historically characterised by a deep divide between north and south; this led to the emergence of the so-called Southern Question. We aim to bring into the international debate the existence of a South in a European country which is usually and univocally considered to belong to the North. The analysis is structured around two main interconnected dimensions: 1) the macro-dimension of knowledge production where we show how, when analysing the experience of schooling, if the structure of the field itself and its logic of domination are not challenged, any critical epistemological discourse is destined to become a form of structural complicity with the intrinsic logic of the academic field; 2) the micro-dimension of school experience: schools, families and students engage and participate in the educational field, are part of it, adhere to its rules of play and struggle to 'exist' in its interstices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to explain symbolic violence as a behavior of communicating among students, explain text signs and the context of symbolic violence based on the process of communication behavior among students and explain symbolic violence and anticipation of student behavior through the role of teachers based on character education and digital literacy. This research uses a qualitative approach. Data collection techniques use observation and documentation. Data analysis is done by organizing data, describing it into units, synthesizing, structuring it into patterns, choosing which ones are important and which ones to learn, and making conclusions. The results showed that acts of symbolic violence between students through private space communication were considered commonplace even though they realized that these actions were not justified. The violence is caused by feeling superior and thinking other students have shortcomings. In order to avoid symbolic acts of violence in the media, the role of the teacher in each teaching refers to character building. Digital literacy efforts are carried out in schools to shape character and anticipate violence for students when using digital media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]