symbolic boundary

(noun)

Conceptual distinctions made by social actors that separate people into groups and generate feelings of similarity and group membership.

Related Terms

  • individual mobility

Examples of symbolic boundary in the following topics:

  • Defining Boundaries

    • One important factor in how symbolic boundaries function is how widely they are accepted as valid.
    • Symbolic boundaries are a "necessary but insufficient" condition for social change.
    • He saw the symbolic boundary between the sacred and the profane as the most profound of all social facts, and the one from which lesser symbolic boundaries were derived.
    • Rituals, whether secular or religious, were for Durkheim the means by which groups maintained their symbolic and moral boundaries.
    • Mary Douglas has subsequently emphasized the role of symbolic boundaries in organizing experience, private and public, even in a secular society.
  • Graphing Inequalities

    • The straight line shown is called a boundary line.
    • Note that because the inequality uses the $>$ symbol, rather than the $\geq$ symbol, the inequality is strict: points on the boundary line are not solutions, so the line is drawn dotted.
    • This is called the boundary line.
    • First, we need to graph the boundary line.
    • This gives the boundary line below:
  • The Interactionist Perspective

    • From a symbolic interactionist perspective, gender is produced and reinforced through daily interactions and the use of symbols.
    • Symbolic interactionism aims to understand human behavior by analyzing the critical role of symbols in human interaction.
    • The meanings attached to symbols are socially created and fluid, instead of natural and static.
    • Because of this, we act and react to symbols based on their current assigned meanings.
    • The woman in this picture blurs the boundaries between the symbols that are traditionally considered masculine or feminine.
  • Religious Symbols

    • The Star of David is a Jewish religious symbol that represents Judaism.
    • Religious symbolism is the use by a religion of symbols including archetypes, acts, artwork, events, or natural phenomena.
    • The symbolism of the early Church was characterized as being understood by initiates only.
    • The study of religious symbolism is either universalist, a component of comparative religion and mythology, or seen in a localized scope within the confines of a religion's limits and boundaries.
    • Religious symbolism is effective when it appeals to both the intellect and the emotions.
  • Populations, samples, and boundaries

    • At one extreme, they might consist of symbols in texts or sounds in verbalizations; at the other extreme, nations in the world system of states might constitute the population of nodes.
    • In each case, however, the elements of the population to be studied are defined by falling within some boundary.
    • The boundaries of the populations studied by network analysts are of two main types.
    • Probably most commonly, the boundaries are those imposed or created by the actors themselves.
    • Network analysts can expand the boundaries of their studies by replicating populations.
  • African Art

    • The oldest African art dates to the Mesolithic and late Upper Paleolithic boundary and includes mostly rock-art.
    • The oldest African art is dated to the Mesolithic and late Upper Paleolithic boundary, about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.
    • Discoveries of engraved stones in the Blombos Caves of South Africa has led some historians to believe that early Homo Sapiens were capable of symbolic art .
    • Engraved ochre from the Blombos Cave has led some historians to believe that early Homo Sapiens were capable of symbolic art.
  • Pop Art

    • The Pop Art Movement began in the 1960s and questioned the boundaries between "high" and "low" art.
    • One of the goals of Pop Art was to blur and draw into question the boundaries between "high" and "low" art or popular culture.
    • In contrast to the Abstract Expressionists, who not only disdained subject matter but also took their paintings to be an index of the artist's presence on the canvas, Neo-Dadaists sought to create meaning solely through the use of conventional symbols and icons such as targets, flags, letters and numbers.
    • Combines served as instances in which the delineated boundaries between art, sculpture, and the everyday object were broken down so that all were re-contextualized in a single work of art.
    • Flag by Jasper Johns presents the American flag as subject matter, thus invoking a plethora of associations and juxtapositions between the popular image, symbol, and fine art.
  • Bronze Age Rock Carvings

    • Glyphs from the Nordic Bronze Age (c. 1700-500 BCE) seem to refer to some form of territorial boundary between tribes, in addition to possible religious meanings.
    • One common symbol called the cup-and-ring mark has been found on petroglyphs in the British Isles, as well as on the European continent in locations as diverse as Spain, Scandinavia, and Greece.
    • This symbol consists of a concave depression, no more than a few centimeters in diameter, pecked into a rock surface and often surrounded by concentric circles also etched into the stone.
    • Some scholars have suggested that the cup-and-ring mark were symbolically linked to water, having sacred associations in late prehistoric society.
    • They have been identified as (top to bottom, left to right): Plowing with oxen (the branch in the farmer's hand is assumed to be part of a fertility ritual), archer/hunter with bow, fishing from a small boat, (middle row) a procession of unknown nature, foot prints, (bottom row) man with dog, typical Scandinavian rock carving ship symbol.
  • Matter and Antimatter

    • For example, a positron (the antiparticle of the electron, with symbol e+) and an antiproton (symbol p-) can form an antihydrogen atom .
    • If antimatter-dominated regions of space existed, the gamma rays produced in annihilation reactions along the boundary between matter and antimatter regions would be detectable.
  • Modulation

    • This often happens at phrase boundaries, with the old-key tonic ending one phrase and the new-key tonic beginning the next.
    • When a direct modulation happens across a phrase boundary, it is also called a phrase modulation.
    • The pivot chord receives its analytical symbol for the old key, as usual.
    • Below that symbol is the new key, colon, and the analytical symbol for the pivot chord in the new key.
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