Open AccessGiving Flowers: Sociological Analysis of the Ritualized Practice
Author(s) -
Ирина Троцук,
Anastasia V. Morozova
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-3-41-47
Subject(s) - ideology , sociology , sociological theory , aesthetics , anthropology , art , politics , law , political science
Addresses gifting flowers as a specific social and cultural ritual. The authors apply Simmel’s model to reveal “genuine” nature of different type of ritualised flowers giving both in its traditional, even ancient and actual, newly invented forms. Giving flowers as a ritual has several social functions, among which the consolidative, ideological, innovative, and memorial ones are specially addressed.