Institutions inherently operate by reproducing homogeneity rather than diversity
Evidence
It bears pointing out here the inherently homogenizing logic of institutions. In their dominant logical form, institutions are predicated principally on instituting, operating, and (re)producing homogeneity. … This homogenizing logic is internal to administration and governmentality. To run counter to it, even in an administrative capacity, is to run counter to administrative or govern-mental logic, The state ~ and nation-state especially, where nation here becomes the cultural reproduction of hegemonic consensus to state administrative mandates ~ is all about institutionally reproductive homogenization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 20
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Connects to the ‘managing diversity’ framing in earlier article work on how institutions deploy rhetoric to mask homogenizing control.
- XREF: connects to: Spurious universal entities are produced by unrepresentative social institutions — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 733; Unequaled variety of access comes with homogenizing standardization imposed by protocols — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 212; Collective values arise through institutions, not from atomized preference sums — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 312 (+1 more)