The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
a theory of classes: These propositions and analyses (of Dr. Bourdieu's research) presuppose a theory of classes and 'dominant groups' (fractions of classes or elites), both in the sense of a general conception of the division of societies into such groups and classes which results in the imposition of a culture and in pedagogic action as symbolic violence, and further presupposes the establishment and maintenance of a society based upon such hierarchical power structures.