Problem
"As instruments of knowledge and communication, 'symbolic structures' can exercise a structuring power only because they themselves are structured. Symbolic power is a power of constructing reality, and one which tends to establish a gnoseological order: the immediate meaning of the world (and in particular of the social world) depends on what Durkheim calls logical conformism, that is, 'a homogeneous conception of time, space, number and cause, one which makes it possible for different intellects to reach agreement'. ' Durkheim - and, after him, Radcliffe-Brown, who makes 'social solidarity' dependent on the sharing of a symbolic system - has the merit of designating the social function (in the sense of structural functionalism) of symbolism in an explicit way) it is an authentic political function which cannot be reduced to the structuralists' function of communication. Symbols are the instruments par excellence of 'social integration': as instruments of knowledge and communication (cf. Durkheim's analysis of the festivity), they make it possible for there to be a consensus on the meaning of the social world, a consensus which contributes fundamentally to the reproduction of the social order. 'Logical' integration is the precondition of 'moral' integration" (p.166)
How do you explain this in simpler English?
Pierre Bourdieu's book "Language and Symbolic Power" chapter 7 (On Symbolic Power).