Social Ritual Social Ritual is like a bridge to transform the human behavior from the irrational to the rational. According to Preston Blier, “Ritual serves to some extent as a means of both heightening the differences between the ‘ordinary’ and the ‘strange’ and helping to resolve inherent contradictions between the two.” So, ritual makes people believe that their behavior has a specific meaning, even if it is hard to understand by other cultures. That also explain that the Louvre still remain the pavilions around the corners, even if the pavilions already lost the original function on it. Moreover, some of elements of traditional chateau also inherited by the Louvre but those elements lost their practical functions in the wars. ”Responded“for Social Ritual The space behind the East …show more content…
The plan shows the thick wall for fortifications, only few loopholes were open on the facade of fortifications to serve the function of war. Every elements have functional meaning with the wars in that period. Turning the view from Middle Ages to Renaissance, the Château de Chambord still keep the circle plan of the fortifications. However, the whole architectural style already affected by Italian experience, the fortifications have larger opening and have symmetry facade of chateau. It mean that the original function already disappear, the larger opening on facade cannot defense the enemy’s attack anymore. Although, the chateau was protected by the moat which surrounding the chateau. In the late Renaissance, most of chateau transforms the shape to the square on plan and connect with the wings which flank from the center of main entrance. However, Salomon de Brosse make the pavilions exist individually in the Château de Blérancourt. The design of free standing pavilions is a huge step for French architecture to close the ideal Italian Renaissance architecture than the
Introduction Erving Goffman (1922-1982) held the position of Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as President of the American Sociological Association in the year leading up to his death in 1982. Goffman is considered as the pioneer of the study of face-to-face interaction and has made a substantial contribution to micro-sociology. He is recognised as a major figure in the symbolic interaction perspective. In 2007 he was listed as the sixth most cited author in the humanities and social sciences (The Times Higher Education Guide, 2007).
The time between World Wars was a tense and significant point in the history of humanity, especially for the European continent. France had suffered immensely during the First World War, and the psyche of the nation was deeply shaken. The result was, for some, a desire for a return to the comparatively peaceful state felt prior to the War. The “Call to Order” as it became known embodied this effort. Many artistic movements were abandoned, temporarily or permanently. Such was the fate of the Futurist movement, which somewhat naively glorified all of the things that had made World War I so incredibly destructive to the continent, technology, and violence. A resurgence of classical styled art followed. Just as the populous sought clearly defined order and purity in their lives so too did the search for pure forms of artistic expression arise. Amedee Ozenfant and Charles-Eduoard Jeanneret led the Purist movement, eschewing the decorative qualities of Cubism and focusing on the precise and orderly expression of form they sought to return order to the arts. Jeanneret, who would later become Le Corbuiser took these methods and theories to work in architecture, seeking to literally rebuild the cities in a pure and orderly way. Corbusier’s architectural work during the interwar period would become the foundation for much of modern architectural thinking, his methods and beliefs set the stage for much of the works being built in our current day and age. Though his hopes of seeing a more orderly physical manifestation of society never did occur to the extent he desired, the impact he had on the discipline of architecture is tremendous.
When Louis XIII built his hunting lodge on the hillside of Versailles in 1623 , I suspect he never imaged the true master piece of French Baroque architecture it would become and that it would continue live throughout history in all its glory, almost viewed as a physical timeline of the history of France. Versailles was the seat of absolute monarchy and became its own symbol, it became the physical representation for power. Looking past its extensive historical background, the palace of Versailles has such a complex architectural and artistic influence as nearly four generations of French king royals have lived in the palace continually expanding and renovating it to match the current styles and inspirations of that era. In creating Versailles,
A new design of smaller walls that were built in uneven lines, like a star shape, was implemented to strengthen the area called crownworks or hornworks. Other modifications of new designs included lower and thicker walls, gun towers that projected at an angle, intervals of guns for fields of fire, wide and deep ditches, and pillboxes.
Rituals can be described in multiple different ways such as church services or graduation ceremonies. They can even be illustrated by “the symbolic use of bodily movements and gestures in a social situation to express and articulate meanings”. Rituals can be distinguished from daily routines that has connections to the symbols, beliefs, and values of the social groups. Rituals provide meaning through shared experiences to social assemblies. Ritual provides a mechanism to rejoin the mind and body in an activity of
“Rituals and Traditions; It Takes a Tribe,” written by David Berreby and “Indians: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History” written by Jane Tompkins, both exemplify a typical controversial topic in the United States of America today. The US prides there self on the basis of freedom, and how Americans are made up of individuals with backgrounds from all around the world. Many consider the US to be a “melting pot”, a society where cultures are just blended together and not recognized fully on their own, where as others consider the US to be a “salad bowl”, where people of international cultures hold fast to their traditions and practices and coexist with the cultures around them. Both authors of the readings propose that generally speaking,
In contrast, the architecture at the time represented wealth and stability, traditional enduring values. During this time, there was a lot of social change that came from science and philosophy. The kick from the Industrial Revolution accelerated the trend, even though ideas from the Gothic Style started it. Steam-powered sawmills could now create elaborate materials, cheaper and faster. As a result, houses became increasingly ornate. Lower income families could finally afford tr...
Now at days there is so many more different archaic rituals and traditions are practiced by believers, of all the religions that exist some are more popular then others, there is some sensitive people on the religion sometimes that cant really stay focused because they comet acts that they are not sport too and more then a crime it’s a self belief if either they fallow the rules of rules of behaving for their religion says spots to be done. I focused on learning the rituals that are found , there is rituals on every human community and there for it means there has to be some soured of social communication to identify different aspects of rituals of traditions. That gives the structure of the different events people do on their own religion rituals also are there for help explaining the changes of the seasons or communication of real historical events they occur in programs that charges attend to do, its very clear how rituals help out the psychological aspects to the humans minds because it sets examples that there for its better to
A key use of propaganda in Versailles was the depiction of Louis XIV in paintings. Often, artwork in Versailles depicted him as handsome and god-like, he was even portrayed as gods themselves, such as “Apollo or Jupiter” (Constans 109). This god-like image affected Loui...
Rituals: A ritual is a prescribed or formalized action that dramatizes religious symbols. The main ritual I noted was prayer. Rituals are repeated in order to attain or sustain an individual’s contact with ultimate relevance and to consolidate the cohesion of the community. The origins of rituals are often explained in myths. Many rituals are reenactments of myths. The performance of rituals usually involves the use of symbols.
In the article “Conditions of Trade,” Michael Baxandall explains the interaction serving of both fifteenth- century Italian painting and text on how the interpretation of social history from the style of pictures in a historical period, pre-eminently examine the early Renaissance painting. Baxandall looks not only on the explanation of how the style of painting is reflected in a society, but also engages in the visual skills and habits that develop out of daily life. The author examines the central focus on markets, material visual practices, and the concept of the Renaissance period overlooking art as an institution. He observes a Renaissance painting, which relate the experience of activities such as preaching, dancing, and assessing. The author considers discussions of a wide variety of artistic painters, for instance, Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli, Luca Signorelli, and numerous others. He defines and exemplifies concepts used in contemporary critic of the painting, and in the assembled basic equipment needed to discover the fifteenth- century art. Therefore this introductory to the fifteenth- century Italian painting and arise behind the social history, argues that the two are interconnected and that the conditions of the time helped shape the distinctive elements in the artists painting style. Through the institutional authorization Baxandall looks at integration in social, cultural and visual evaluation in a way that shows not only the visual art in social construction, but how it plays a major role in social orders in many ways, from interaction to larger social structural orders.
In my research I have achieved the argument based on comparison between St Peter’s basilica and Tempietto with Church of Vierzehnheiligen that the rational engagement is more successful in its meaning, than emotional in terms of forms. Scott continued stating that, been It has been proven that for instance a simple form as circle achieve a deeper meaning because of it’s perfection and it’s centrality especially if the building celebrate an event which bring about a attraction to the canter, as it is obvious in these building all had something in common which is the focal point.
In essence, everything we do is a ritual. Rituals are tradition, a way of gathering people together to celebrate; to mourn; to live. They are also a way of conforming; religious rituals may make people feel better because the known is better than the ‘unknown’. From mundane things such as shopping to important ones like remembrance services for those who died in wars. It is my objective in this essay to try to explain in what ways that rituals affirm communities (if they do) and what role they take. To do this I will use three historical periods to outline my argument that rituals overall help to unite communities most of the time. Through the use of repetitive actions the community is positively bolstered by connecting with the pas, and potentially increases the level of belonging and attached one feels to a location.. The periods are: Renaissance Italy, Colonial India and Contemporary Western Europe. Using these three time periods as an overall starting point, rituals in communities shall come to light, and their importance and role shall be discovered. Ritual actions are different from ‘every day’ actions. A ritual is formalised, collective, institutionalised and kind of a repetitive action. Rituals function as rules of conduct which guide the behaviour of men and women in the presence of the sacred and can appear as the legitimation of secular authority, but there are also ‘rituals of rebellion’ which will be explained later. Ritual is a word derived from the word ‘Rite’ and refers to the liturgical practices of the church. The invention of an idea of ‘ritual’ as a distinct form of activity came from the Protestant reformation. The Protestants condemned this idea; they saw the word ritual as something to describe the disrepu...
In The Sacred & The Profane: A Nature of Religion, Mircea Eliade attempts to define the sacred by stating it is “the opposite of the profane” (pg. 10). Through out the book he tries to explain this statement through the concept of hierophany (the idea that one can experience, sensorily, the manifestation of the holy/sacred), however his main explanation of the sacred being “the opposite of the profane” is the comparison of a modern religious man and a modern non-religious man (a profane man). Eliade compares the two by explaining how each would react to space, time, nature, and life. This essay will explain the idea of sacred space, how a religious and a profane man would experience it, and how the idea of sacred space might be applied to the study of medieval art and architecture.