Imaginary (sociology)
The imaginary, or social imaginary is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society.
'The social imaginary... the creative and symbolic dimension of the social world, the dimension through which human beings create their ways of living together and their ways of representing their collective life'.
Read more about Imaginary (sociology): Lacan, Castoriadis, Taylor, Technology, Ontology
Famous quotes containing the word imaginary:
“History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
...
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody’s place in line.”
—Wislawa Szymborska (b. 1923)