Freedom and Domination
The Garden of Eden and the Social Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2554497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L R Kurtz (0000-0002-5999-5239, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 443 |
| Publication date | 1979-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2577600 |
| OpenAlex | W4249464280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
A study of the Garden of Eden mythology as it appears in three cultural contexts—ancient Jewish, early Christian, and early American—sheds light on the relationship between cultural forms and social organization. The paper argues that cultural expressions play a definitional role in boundary maintenance at times of social crisis. The Garden of Eden imagery was used for symbolic expression of conflicts among social groups, acting at times as a vehicle for conflict, and in other instances as a means of reducing conflict. By both compensating for fragmentation and social deficiencies on the one hand (the compensatory aspect of culture), and by reflecting the interests of status groups and individuals on the other (the reflective aspect of culture), the Eden saga provided symbolic expression of the issue central to processes of boundary maintenance, social change, and conflict
Aesthetics · Art · Expression (computer science) · Garden of Eden · Literature · Mythology · Order (exchange) · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Social conflict · Social order · Sociology · The Symbolic · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |