Epistemic community: Difference between revisions

An '''epistemic community''' is a group of people with values and ideals in common, probably sharing [[instructional capital]], but not necessarily any real sense of mutual protection, or [[social capital]].  A [[faction]] is an example.  The [[ideology]] of "[[virtual community]]" implies that epistemic communities can and should behave with all the violent force and brutality of real police protecting real communities - this is related to [[sysopism]], an ideology that creates a [[priestly hierarchy]] to force its [[episteme]] on all others, or else practice [[social exclusion]] methods on them.