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sociocosmic en · ADJ

Etymology

From socio- + cosmic.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to the order of the universe and one's consequent obligations to and role in society.
   • The apparent contradiction involved in accommodating a collective sociocosmic process unrelated to human conduct to the karma of individual action is never fully resolved. 2014, Julian F. Woods, Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahabharata, →ISBN, page 166:
   • Thus the Gita champions the theory of varnasramadbarma as upholding the sociocosmic order. 2013, Joseph Kitagawa, The Religious Traditions of Asia: Religion, History, and Culture, →ISBN:
   • Furthermore, this vision invites us to thematize the sociocosmic biography of the exploited life, creatively pushing beyond the dialectical sociobiography of minjung and the innocent anthropocosmic vision. 2010, Heup Young Kim, Christ and the Tao, →ISBN, page 172:
   • Though conceptualized by introspection and terminology, this identity is not differentiated from a sociocosmic order that defines self as status and status as cosmology; through speech, posture, and manners, the entire psycho-sociocosmic complex is maintained. 1978, James L. Peacock, Muslim Puritans: Reformist Psychology in Southeast Asian Islam, →ISBN:
   • In the second case, the religious symbol ties or binds the self not to the social order but to self-transcendence. In such cases the self is understood not as a mirror of the sociocosmic order but as reality radically open to the infinite. 1993, Darrell J. Fasching, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia?, →ISBN:
   • ...one that is derived from similar Southeast Asian societies but that also contains within itself the explanation of why Maya sociocosmic classification differed in essential respects from its Asian counterpart. 1997, Cheryl Claassen, Rosemary A. Joyce, Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, →ISBN, page 205:
   • To fear the witch "within" refers to the patient's feelings of isolation and exclusion in relation to the sociocosmic environment. 2004, Michael Winkelman, Philip M. Peek, Divination and Healing: Potent Vision, →ISBN, page 47:
   • First, I provide a synthetic formulation of the contrast between the two types of sociocosmic regimes that I have been developing at various points of the book. 2012, Carlos Fausto, Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia, →ISBN, page 301:
   • The sociocosmic order (dharma) can be maintained only through sacrifice, which nourishes the gods of heaven, who in turn cause rain to fall on the earth at the right time; it is thus as a result of sacrifice that plants grow and that animals -- notably the cow -- and men can be nourished, and that they can prosper, and that they can offer sacrifices. 1993, Yves Bonnefoy, Asian Mythologies, →ISBN, page 99:
   • The sociocosmic field binds the bodies of living humans to myriad collectivities of doubles and other people, dead ancestors and yovevo spirits. 2014, Suzanne Oakdale, Magnus Course, Fluent Selves, →ISBN:
   • The notion of the smaller or sociocosmic universe is integrally tied to the Puranic notion of dharma. 1991, Deborah A. Soifer, The Myths of Narasimha and Vamana, →ISBN:
   • It has remained a cardinal principle that only Brahmans have the authority to perform the most important rituals that preserve and renew the sociocosmic order. 2001, Stephen Sharot, A Comparative Sociology of World Religions, →ISBN:

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