Exclusion ceremonies psychologically reaffirm the included members’ belonging

Evidence

An important point to remember is that all such apparently antagonistic measures were at the same time vehicles of social integration. Between them, they defused the danger that a ‘foreigner inside’ cannot but present to the self-identity and self-production of the host group. They set up conditions under which cohabitation without friction was conceivable. … As long as they are effective, practices of separation do not need the support of attitudinal hostility. Reduction of commerce to strictly ritualized exchanges required solely devotion to the rules and a trained revulsion against their transgression. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 127 (#expands, via linked claim)

By conforming I had become as much a part of the scene as Sir Walter or the waiter who shifted my plates and filled my glass. — Hamlin Garland Munseys, A Daughter of the Middle Border, 462 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ritual separation practices functioned as social integration rather than mere exclusion — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 127; An individual’s exclusion from society enables their social participation — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 178; Conforming to dress conventions creates a sense of belonging in social settings. — Hamlin Garland Munseys, A Daughter of the Middle Border, 462 (+8 more)

Related

• Ritual separation practices functioned as social integration rather than mere exclusion (similarity 0.84)
• What a society excludes socially becomes symbolically central to its fantasy life (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Ritual separation practices functioned as social integration rather than mere exclusion #expands (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 127
• An individual’s exclusion from society enables their social participation #qualifies (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 178
• Conforming to dress conventions creates a sense of belonging in social settings. #corroborates (0.72) — Hamlin Garland Munseys, A Daughter of the Middle Border, 462
• Exposure to canonical culture functions as a strategy for pacifying the excluded. #complicates (0.72)