Social aspects of cult reality
Abstract
The problems concerning the appearing and development of cult
reality as a special type of social interaction are under study in the article. The
author uses the methodology of social construction offered by P. Bergman and T.
Lukman to investigate the phenomenon of cult socialization. Cult reality appears
in the course of the specific procedure of secondary socialization that is defined by
the author as cult alternation. This type of social construction of reality demands
re-socialization. The cult reality, though seems to be intersubjective reality, must
be objective not only in the individual conciosness (of an adept of a cult), but must
be shared with other people as well. It is because of intersubjectivity that cult as a
feeling of worship is able to consolidate as a special structure of social reality and
to transform everyday life into cult reality. The peculiarity of cult socialization is
that in the process of it there is a replacement of usual meanings of objects in the
persons everyday life into alternative cult ones, while they get new senses as a
result. Real objects in persons cult conciousness are internalized and become cult
objects. The author defines this process as cult alternation
reality as a special type of social interaction are under study in the article. The
author uses the methodology of social construction offered by P. Bergman and T.
Lukman to investigate the phenomenon of cult socialization. Cult reality appears
in the course of the specific procedure of secondary socialization that is defined by
the author as cult alternation. This type of social construction of reality demands
re-socialization. The cult reality, though seems to be intersubjective reality, must
be objective not only in the individual conciosness (of an adept of a cult), but must
be shared with other people as well. It is because of intersubjectivity that cult as a
feeling of worship is able to consolidate as a special structure of social reality and
to transform everyday life into cult reality. The peculiarity of cult socialization is
that in the process of it there is a replacement of usual meanings of objects in the
persons everyday life into alternative cult ones, while they get new senses as a
result. Real objects in persons cult conciousness are internalized and become cult
objects. The author defines this process as cult alternation
About the Author
Константин Тендит
Комсомольский-на-Амуре государственный
технический университет
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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