Arbitrary meaningless inmate categories prevent solidarity among camp prisoners
Evidence
The two categories of convict were mixed in the prisons and preferential treatment given to common-law offenders, while convicted journalists and politicians usually enjoyed the right to separate treatment. In short, a whole tactic of confusion aimed at maintaining a permanent state of conflict. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 436 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
This process, quite apart from all bonds based on shared substantive interests, will often lead to actual relations between the elements of any two—or of many—groups that have been made alike in this way. One observes this, for example, in the international sympathy that aristocrats hold for one another. To an astonishing degree, these feelings of solidarity are independent of the specific character of the individuals concerned, a matter that is otherwise decisive in determining personal attraction and repulsion. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Prison design deliberately provokes distrust to block prisoner solidarity; Prisons mixed convict classes to keep lower strata in perpetual conflict — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 436; Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595 (+1 more)
Related
- Prisons mixed convict classes to keep lower strata in perpetual conflict (similarity 0.88)
Broader Connections
- Prison design deliberately provokes distrust to block prisoner solidarity
#corroborates(0.95) - Prisons mixed convict classes to keep lower strata in perpetual conflict
#corroborates(0.92) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 436 - Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character
#contradicts(0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595