SOCIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Heterosexuality, Aisle, Pierre Trudeau
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Important place that social rituals have in sociology. Social rituals: he argued in 1912 that rituals are fundamental to building community and maintain community and they are apart of the social order, elementary forms of religious life. Important part of the social order: rituals do social functions of puncatuates social life. They mark a moment in social world destinated as social and important in the social space. It gives us a useful in defining who we are. There are boundaries around us and we are in it: durkheim was talking about religion, and what is consistent around the early religions. This is a defining element of all communities. When you have secularized communities, other kinds of secularized communities start to creating certain kinds of moments as important and who we are. Weddings: this is one of the rituals that are easily recognized, and one of the most significant rituals in ones life.
