Dees is clear and direct in her portrayal of life under Jim Crow, when segregation laws premised on the laughable concept of «separate but equal» ensured that black Americans would not have just second - class status, but would be in constant fear of their lives lest they upset — intentionally or otherwise — the racially charged social balance designed to keep them subservient. (qnetwork.com)
(I don't think I buy that, and the consequences of its criminality are worse than those of smoking it, in my view, but that's the current law and thus social balance.) (slaw.ca)
Subordinating the political to the natural is understood by Freeden as «subordinating those political projects which threaten dominant theories of social balance to those which sustain them.» (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)