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 understanding of clean and dirty as ordered and disordered, that is, an attempt was made to reveal the symbolic meaning of these ideas in the ordering, organization and systematization of social order. In particular, an attempt was made 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, but also implement measures of social control to preserve and reproduce the established social order. These collective ideas, being at the same time necessary components of ethical consciousness, strengthen and focus human sensitivity to accept social order. Ethical consciousness, implementing not only external but also internal 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 mechanisms of social processes from factors that destroy them. An established and controlled social order contributes to the reproducibility and repeatability of social processes, and, consequently, the actions of individuals have a predictable and expected nature. Thus, the routinization of social activity contributes to the formation of a sense of ontological security in a traditional society.