structure of subordination

is one of the two major structure types in society (alongside structures of communication). It refers simply to those structures which are non-reversible, which only go one way.

But I seen to remember limiting the expression 'structures of subordination' by opposing it to 'structures of communication', meaning thereby that there are in society two major structure types: structures of communication which are reciprocal and structures of subordination on the other hand which are univocal and not reversible. It may be that there is somewhere an ambiguity between this particular meaning and the one you have indicated, but it was not an intentional ambiguity.' (CLS 'confrontations 65)

structure of subordination, n.Definitions

structure of subordination