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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE 4)

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The psycho-sociological pressure exerted in an education or training process by the teacher on the learner.

According to P. BOURDIEU, symbolic violence tends toward the transmission of a worldview (Weltanschauung) proper to the educator as a member of a specific socio-cultural group. It corresponds to sets of values and norms, and also perceptions and feelings typical of such a group.

In most cases symbolic violence is implicit and even unconscious in the educator. It can however become overt and translate into more or less subtle discrimination or even declared ostracism against the individual that does not "conform" with the approved type or does not readily accept the rules established by the dominant group.

It is obviously a general and very basic feature in all societies and at all levels.

Snobism, ridiculization, exclusion from some circles, etc., are forms of symbolic violence.

It seems to be a mental form of the physical exclusion in social animals or insects based on pheromonal differences.

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  • 2) Methodology or model
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