Symbolic Analysis of Security Concepts

Abstract

This article examines collective ideas about dirty and clean of a person in a traditional society. First of all,modern hygienic ideas about dirty as contagious were abstracted from these ideas, which gave an understand-ing of clean and dirty as ordered and disordered, that is, an attempt was made to reveal the symbolic meaningof these ideas in the ordering, organization and systematization of social order. In particular, an attempt wasmade to reveal the symbolic meaning of the contents of the concepts of Kazakh culture “kir”, “ot”, “kasietti”,“bata”. At the same time, ideas about dirty and clean not only structure and systematize social experience, butalso implement measures of social control to preserve and reproduce the established social order. These col-lective ideas, being at the same time necessary components of ethical consciousness, strengthen and focushuman sensitivity to accept social order. Ethical consciousness, implementing not only external but also in-ternal self-control over the order, recognizes it as given from outside or from above. Thus, social order andcontrol, strictly regulating the daily life of members of a traditional society, develop protective mechanismsof social processes from factors that destroy them. An established and controlled social order contributes tothe reproducibility and repeatability of social processes, and, consequently, the actions of individuals have apredictable and expected nature. Thus, the routinization of social activity contributes to the formation of asense of ontological security in a traditional society.