SOC 3536 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Marcel Mauss
5 Feb 2017
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Religion is a system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things. People develop things like (cid:498)corporal techniques(cid:499) which can be used to. There are also symbolic reasoning behind how we act (ie. men don"t walk like tradition to act a certain way. Each civilization has a different way to walk, to sleep etc. Corporal techniques: because of society, people are socialized through organize civilizations, because they have unique postures/ways to do things. To know all the domains of our social life (religion, politics, economy, history, aesthetic etc. ) According to mauss, for social cohesion, whenever you give someone something, they will give something back to you.
