... based. Zygmunt Bauman takes this further: "In an encounter with that familiar world ruled by habits and reciprocally reasserting beliefs, sociology acts as a meddlesome and often irritating stranger. It disturbs the comfortingly quiet way of life by asking questions no one among the "locals" remembers being asked, let alone answered."(Bauman, 1997:14-15) In other words, questions disturb a comfortable life and defamiliarise ... create a sense of community amongst its participants and reinforce "communitarian values" to hold people together (Turner, 1974:298). Ritual means that we do not...

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