The various notions of symbolism developed in the social sciences constitute different responses to a central, apparently inevitable, tension in a scientific description of culture. Most cultural productions convey some meaning, yet a social science...

The practice of using...

Symbolism is the applied use of symbols: iconic representations that carry particular conventional meanings. The term "symbolism" is often limited to use in contrast to "representationalism"; defining the general directions of a linear spectrum - where...

JEFFREY PAGE The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-05-1997 THIS SYMBOL OR THAT SYMBOL By JEFFREY PAGE Date: 01-05-1997, Sunday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Column: THE ROAD WARRIOR Predictably, now that the state of Maryland is doing the responsible thing,...

There are now 80 days left in the current fiscal year. When Gov. Weld came into office, he said the state had a $850 million deficit. Now, an additional shortfall of $170 million has been announced. In 3 1/2 months, less than...

The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on goverment-issued headstones of fallen soldiers, according to a settlement announced Monday.A settlement between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Wiccans adds the five-pointed star to the list...

Italian Premier Romano Prodi expressed dismay Sunday that the convictions of 10 former Nazi SS members in the 1944 slaughter of hundreds of civilians near Bologna have only "symbolic" value since the German defendants are unlikely to ever serve their sentences."It was one of the...

Although William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies for a European audience and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter for an American audience, both works of literature contain a common feature found in many novels; symbolism. Both novels portray similar themes through similar symbolism, using symbols such as the forest, society, and characters as Christ figures. This essay describes how both authors achieved this task.

This is a personal essay i wrote in my sophmore year of high school