Social practices, rituals and festive events are common activities that structure the lives of communities and groups and are shared by and relevant to many of its members. They are significant because they reaffirm the identity of those who practice them as a group or as a society and, whether public or private
Social practices, rituals and festive events are common activities that structure the lives of
communities and groups and are shared by and relevant to many of its members. They are significant
because they reaffirm the identity of those who practice them as a group or as a society and, whether
public or private
Rituals and festive events often take place at special times and places and They remind the
community aspects of its worldview and history
Social practices give shape to everyday life and are familiar to all members of the community, even if
not everyone participates in them
Processes such as migration, individualization, the general introduction of formal education, growing
influence of major world religions and other effects of globalization have a particularly marked effect
in these practices.