The preeminent function of social classification appears therefore to be social rule… Classification is nine-tenths of subjection. Indeed to rule over another successfully you have only to see to it that he keeps his place — his place as a male, her place as a female, his or her place as a junior, as a subject or servant or social “inferior” of any kind, as an outcast or exile, a ghost or a god.
Author: Elsie Clews Parsons
Subjects: Life & Society, Power, Psychology | Behavior, Sociology | Anthropology
Subjects: Life & Society, Power, Psychology | Behavior, Sociology | Anthropology
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