The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
social conditions: Those extant conditions (defined as relationships of societal power) which require the transmission of power and privileges to take, more than in any other societal milieu, the indirect paths of academic consecration, or which prevent pedagogic violence from manifesting itself as the social violence it objectively is, are also the conditions which make it possible to state explicitly the objective truth of pedagogic action, whatever the degree of harshness of its methods. If 'there is no science but of the hidden', it is clear why sociology is allied with the historical forces which, in every epoch, oblige the truth of power relations to come into the open, if only bt forcing them to mask themselves yet further.