@article{ART002064970},
author={Chull Lee},
title={A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan},
journal={The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics},
issn={1229-8387},
year={2015},
number={33},
pages={107-138}
TY - JOUR
AU - Chull Lee
TI - A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan
JO - The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
PY - 2015
VL - null
IS - 33
PB - The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
SP - 107
EP - 138
SN - 1229-8387
AB - This study is to show the fact that it is an ‘imagined community’(Anderson’s term) that makes the moral life of individual possible. Morality finds its source on the one hand in the inner voice like conscience and on the other in the hand, the outside voice from the community. This article concerns the latter. The morality is formed and maintained by the works of the ritual and its symbols that the community members perform in everyday life. This is well documented by the Anderson’s work on nationalism. It is also supported by the concepts of the psychological and sociological scholars such as Freud, Winnicott, Durkheim, Bellah and Lacan, especially his concepts of the symbol and the imaginary. Though the community is imagined one, it has an imposing status to its constituents. The role and power of the imagined community is easily revealed when it happened to be de-constructed by the invasion of ‘the real’ in Lacan’s term. Christian church, with its ritual and symbols, also creates the imagined one, and this community allows the church to work as an outer voice of moral authority to its members.
KW - ‘Imagined Community’;Morality;Ritual;Anderson;Lacan
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Chull Lee. (2015). A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 33, 107-138.
Chull Lee. 2015, "A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan", The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, no.33, pp.107-138.
Chull Lee "A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 33 pp.107-138 (2015) : 107.
Chull Lee. A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan. 2015; 33 : 107-138.
Chull Lee. "A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.33(2015) : 107-138.
Chull Lee. A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 33, 107-138.
Chull Lee. A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics. 2015; 33 107-138.
Chull Lee. A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan. 2015; 33 : 107-138.
Chull Lee. "A Sociological Study on the Role of Community in the Source of Moral Life: Durkheim, Anderson and Lacan" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.33(2015) : 107-138.
