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is a tension between on the one hand a fear of transgression and on the other, a fascination and desire of transgression.

For Bataille (1987: 68), taboos bind humans together through fear, but also through a compelling fascination for the sacred object. It is this tension between fear and desire that is the essence of social life'

is determined by structure. Structure in turn is maintained or modified by the 'events' of social life.

The social life is determined by the structure... the structure is maintained in existence by the social life, or undergoes modification through the events of the social life (such as a war, for example). (R-Brown 1949: 322)

's very fabric is imagination. This is because the influence of any real needs, real interests and real materials always remains indirect - the crowd is never conscious of it.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. Simone Weil

is the process that is connected with social structure. It is the interactions and joint actions of persons who are brought into relation by the structure.

The process that is connected with social structure is social life, the interactions and joint actions of persons who are brought into relation by the structure. The concept of function, as I employ it, is used to describe the discoverable interconnections of the social structure and the processes of social life. (R-Brown 1949: 322)

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