洁净与社会秩序——兼评道格拉斯《洁净与危险》

Cleanliness and Social Order

道格拉斯的《洁净与危险》提出了有关"肮脏"的三个问题,表明肮脏不是一个单独的和孤立的事件,它是一个分类系统。人类不断地从个人的和集体的经验中创造出意义的模式,一个象征分类系统一旦建立起来,它就会经常地得到强化,社会规则的结构则是象征和宗教现象的根本基础。

Douglas＇ ＂Clean and Dangers＂ puts forward three issues about ＂dirtyness＂. Dirtyness is not a separate and isolated event. It is a classification system. As human beings, we constantly create a mean;ngful models from our individual and collective experiences. And once a model is established, it will often be strengthened and the structure of social rules will be seen as the fundamental basis of symbolic or religious phenomenon. This paper puts forward some viewpoints of the author that in daily life, people would determine whether the other person is clean or dirty based on their relationship between intimacy and alienation.