# Administrative Caste Assignment **Domain:** Administrative Systems / Credit / Structural Inequality **Doc Type:** Corpus Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Administrative caste assignment** describes the way an institutional score or classification can determine access to housing, employment, insurance, transportation, credit and contractual participation, effectively placing a person into a constrained administrative status. ## Credit Context Credit scores compress a history into a number that downstream institutions use automatically. The score can become consequential without preserving the causes that produced it or providing a practical channel through which exceptional circumstances can be understood. ## See Also [[wiki/Algorithmic Governance|Algorithmic Governance]], [[wiki/State Legibility|State Legibility]], [[wiki/Structural Violence|Structural Violence]] ## Relationships - **Semantic reindexing of caste (September 22, 2026):** [[articles/The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime|The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime]] · [[wiki/Affordance Allocation|Affordance Allocation]].