SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AS THE MAIN MECHANISM FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF GENDER POLARIZATION AND SUBORDINATION IN THE THEORY OF PIERRE BOURDIEU

separation and subordination are presented in the traditional culture as the primordial "order of things" that has found its realization in almost all positions of individual's life. Naturalization of sexual difference is successful enough because the objective principles of social order are also reflected in the mental attitudes of individuals. Some correlations between the subjective and the objective are presented as security legitimation of the existing gender order, so that the dominant male appears a matter of course, inevitable and natural. The naturalization process under discussion reaches its particular meaning due to what Bourdieu called somatization. The latter means binary mental attitudes and binary external social order are confirmed. The "natural" realization of the order is in the bodies of social agents that become carriers of the subjective / objective dichotomy and thus demonstrate the indestructible "natural" character of gender polarization and subordination. In accordance with the principle mentioned above two types of physicality are produced; their essential features present a contrast between the two social / mental poles. Human body falls to demonstrate the symbolic distribution of social roles, realizing and legitimizing symbolic violence at the same time. The violence separates the "naturally" dominant and "naturally" dominated individuals. As a result, the body can be understood and described as a kind of memory storage, which records binarilized culture mechanisms and reproduces them in a time. So, the sexual dimension of physicality is not an essential biological thinking, as it is implied in everyday consciousness due to the artificial naturalization of sex for centuries. The body is constructed in accordance with the binarity of the traditional social model and, therefore, represents one of the two variants of legitimized sexual dichotomy. Symbolic violence is primarily carried out according to labeling bodies, in which biologically neutral body perceives its sexual dimension and becomes one of its symbolic carriers. As a matter of fact this violence literally demonstrates the binary oppositions in two opposite ways of self- representation. Gender dimension that found visibleness of the natural, the essential, beingness due to body is destined to draw attention of other social agents and this way to involve them in the overall bipolar system of sociality. Gender polarization and subordination are presented as naturalized dispositions of society demonstrating the inevitability and there is no alternative of the traditional social order.