The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
legitimate symbolic violence: that violence which is inflicted/imposed upon society and individuals which is accepted by society and individuals as 'normal', as a normal, every-day 'fact of life', such as the IRS and taxes, but which is, nonetheless, violence in its perpetration upon the various classes of society and the social order so affected thereby.
See also:
a proposition/axiom
cultural arbitrary
educational system legitimacy
'laissez-faire' habitus in society
language of authority
legitimating class relations
legitimacy
legitimate violence
legitimate physical violence
legitimate use of physical violence
méconnaissance
medical 'selection' (an example)
misrecognition versus legitimacy
negative societal parameters
pedagogic justification
politics
power legitimacy
power symbolism
privilege
reality and the misconceptions of sociologists
ruling class
sociological inquiry into 'the hidden functions' (of education and the social order)
symbolic violence
the homology of violence
the negative dimension of society
the relative autonomy of the educational system
the ruling ideas
title
violence
ultimate truth