No culture’s content is derivable from universal human nature or nature itself.

Evidence

1.2. PA is. objectively, symbolic violence in a second sense insofaras the delimitation objectively entailed by the fact of imposing and inculcating certain meanings, treated by selection and by the corres­ ponding exclusion as worthy of being reproduced by PA, re-produces (in both senses) the arbitrary selection a group or class objectively makes in and through its cultural arbitrary. … 12.1 The selection of meanings which objectively defines a group’s or a class’s culture as a symbolic system is arbitrary insofar as the structure and functions of that culture cannot be deduced from any universal principle. whether physical, biological or spiritual. not being linked by any sort of internal relation to ‘the nature of things’ or any ‘human nature: Gloss: The ‘choices’ which constitute a culture (‘choices’ which no one makes) appear as arbitrary when related by the comparative method to the sum total of present or past cultures or. — Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, Reproduction in Education, Society and…, 792

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the two senses of symbolic violence and anchors ‘arbitrary’ in non-derivability from any universal principle.
• XREF: Cuts against essentialist defenses of any curriculum as ‘natural’ — parallels in Annihilation of Caste on Brahmin claims of natural order. — connects to: Nature cannot anchor materialism because social and cultural structures now overdetermine the natural. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 747; Human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, not a fixed essence. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 617

Broader Connections

• Human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, not a fixed essence. #corroborates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 617
• Nature cannot anchor materialism because social and cultural structures now overdetermine the natural. #corroborates (0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 747