Functions, Sustainment, and Contestation of Myths in Social Processes
摘要
Myths hold significant cultural importance within social dynamics (Bouchard, 2017; Doty, 1980). Contrasting the rather vague, broad, and open conceptual definition of political myths or lack thereof in extant literature, scholarly production on what they can accomplish is larger. Research on myths has been an area of academic inquiry, particularly within the fields of anthropology and sociology, where notable scholars such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Benedict Anderson, Johann Bachofen, Joseph Campbell, Bruce Lincoln, Robert Segal, and Gilbert Durand have provided valuable frameworks with the purpose of analyzing myths embedded in different social practices or contexts. These theoretical developments provide us with a clearer and deeper understanding of the functions and purposes myths serve in organizational patterns within observed societies (Benford & Snow, 2000).