1st Edition

Order of Rituals The Interpretation of Everyday Life

By Hans-Georg Soeffner Copyright 1997
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

To those still accustomed to seeing social order depicted in classes, strata, central groups, or institutions, and who measure and classify the social world according to "centers" and "margins," modern society presents itself as ambiguous and unmanageable. This is not unprecedented. Human societies often discover themselves in situations in which the traditional grids of order and stratification... Read more

Prologue
1. Luther From the Collectivity of Faith to a Lutheran-Protestant Type of Individuality
2. Style and Stylization: Punk, or the Superelevation of Everyday Life
3. Rituals of Anti-Ritualism Materials for the Non-Everyday
4. Flying Moles (Pigeon-BreedingMiners in the Ruhr District)
5. The Staging of Society Voting as Leisure-Time Activity
6. Borrowed Charisma Populist Stagings
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index

Biography

Hans-Georg Soeffner