Symbolism and values

Rationality and irrationality of culture

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2305571
AutoresReimon Bachika (Bukkyo University, Kyoto, Japan,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen59
Número2
Páginas200-213
Fecha de publicación2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCurrent Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0011392110391152
OpenAlexW2065593756
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas16

Values tend to be taken for granted by communitarian politicians and religiously thinking people as well as by various sociologists, that is insofar as certain aspects of social life underscore the belief in the importance of values. However, other social phenomena, particularly ethnic and religious conflicts, seem more affected by the symbolism of culture than by values. This article attempts to trace the logic of symbolism and values in various cultural settings. It contends that these core components of culture are of much consequence but may be problematic as well, due to their ambivalence and conflation. It concludes that symbolism and values may invert their inherent nature of reason and affect, rationality and irrationality

Ambivalence · Argument (complex analysis) · Conflation · Epistemology · Irrational number · Irrationality · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology