Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership: Perceptions of the LGBTQ in Turkiye by Fatoş Gökşen, Murat Ergin

“…Second, the public displays of mistrust are different from the forms of prejudice expressed toward other groups, such as ethnic minorities. The symbolic boundaries drawn vis-àvis LGBTQ individuals tells us more about the core values of belonging and solidarity in Turkish society.…”
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Le contrôle du corps des femmes à travers l’histoire. Essai de mise en perspective de la question de la santé sexuelle et reproductive des femmes dans le monde arabe by Sophie Bessis

“…Thus they legislate all on the bodies of women, enclosing the latter in a corset of obligations and prohibitions. The symbolic valorization of maternal function and the demonization of femininity are part of this apparatus of constraint. …”
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“What are we celebrating?”: Nation-Building and The Politics of Independence Commemoration in Ghana by Manuel Jojo MANU-OSAFO, Enoch LAMPTEY, Kofi Takyi ASANTE

“…This somewhat paradoxical observation arises from the fact that people distinguished the material from the symbolic aspects of independence in a manner that reflects the prevailing factional, ideological, class and other rifts in society. …”
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Les appels de Margaret Fell pour convertir les Juifs : de l’émancipation à la soumission chez la première femme Quaker by Frédéric Herrmann

“…Her attempts to convert the Jews to Christianity using the written word (she published several pamphlets on the subject in the 1650s and 1660s) symbolically placed her in an unprecedented position of authority and power, as they rested on the premise that women were the spiritual equals of men and could set about the task of converting the Jews as well as men could. …”
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El Tractado de caso y fortuna de Lope de Barrientos. El arte de gobernar bajo el signo de la suerte inescrutable by Mianda Cioba

“…During the tormented fifteenth century, the symbolic legitimation of royal power through discourse contains a rapid succession of ideological models impelled by the political and moral crisis of authority: from royalty conceived as a providential instrument of the divine project, to the political functionalism, organized around the newly discovered concept of reason of State. …”
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Efektivitas konseling kelompok dengan teknik modeling simbolik berbasis TPACK dalam meningkan kecerdasan emosi anak usia dini by Swasti Indrayani, Ni Ketut Suarni, Nyoman Dantes

“…This study was conducted with the aim to examianting the effectiveness of group counselling of TPACK-based symbolic modelling techniques to improve children's emotional intelligence. …”
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Architecture muséale : une figure de l’art de la ville "Du British Museum à la spirale du Victoria & Albert Museum à Londres" by Isabelle Alzieu

“…The new museum, above and beyond its economic importance, has become an essential element of symbolic capital for a city. This is true of the architectural object itself and the urbanistic project which accompanies it. …”
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Assessing the role of local councils in the development of sustainable urban security (Case Study; Urmia City) by Parvin Daneshvar, Taghiloo Ali Akbar, Hassan heydari

“…In this regard, the local councils, as the most prominent local institutions and the most important decentralization manifestations, symbolize the serious presence of the people to determine their own fate, if they are institutionalized in the governance structure as coordinators of the executive agencies. …”
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Real-Time Identification of Nonstandard Thermal Inkjet Codes on the Surface of Hot-Rolled Steel Sheets in Complex Environments by Xing-Hua Wang, Le Liang, Hong-Wei Sun, Wei-Bin Chen, Can-Can Wang, Yang-Yang Sun

“…Thermal inkjet codes are patterns of numbers, letters, and symbols formed by continuous spraying of high-temperature resistant coatings on the surface of billets, so it is especially important to identify thermal inkjet code information accurately and timely during the processing stage of steel plates. …”
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Choice of Innovative Technologies as a Factor of Modernization of the Industrial Plants by E. A. Panfilova

“…Today technology is also reflecting, its symbolic characteristics, contained in the codes of signification, become more important, than technical ones. …”
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Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet by Ginés Mateo-Martínez, Antonio Vázquez-Sellán, María Luisa Díaz-Martínez, María Carmen Sellán-Soto

“…Method: Based on the epistemological paradigm of phenomenology, the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism, and the methodological perspective of phenomenological reduction, a qualitative discourse analysis was performed through different strategies (thematic content analysis and interpretive phenomenological analysis, applying ad hoc techniques). …”
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Situation of the Yukarıköy’s Traditional Stone Masonry Houses Affected by 2017 Ayvacık Earthquakes by Ali Rıza Parsa, Ali Osman Kuruşcu

“…Some of the important structures and settlements symbolizing the socio-economic and cultural life of these civilizations have survived to the present day. …”
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“Fierce and Free, or Caged and Cowed”: Interspecies Oppression and Survival in Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport by Elisa Pesce

“…In light of the wild creature’s function of foil for both the narrator and Stacy (De Bruyn 274-79), I propose that Ellmann presents interspecies articulations as a harbinger of hope in a cultural context in which the girl is nevertheless constantly forced to navigate the tensions between the aspects of her connection to the animal world that make her fierce and free and those that work to keep her—and symbolically all women, minority groups, and nature—caged and cowed.…”
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Le microphone dans la balance : espaces et enjeux sonores des procès historiques des attentats de Paris et de Nice by Aurore Juvenelle

“…It intertwines a ritualized relationship with a judicial space unusually fragmented by the security system, with the symbolism of a multi-secular monument where History is lived, day after day and over time, by a specific micro-society. …”
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Charles, the Prince of Wales at the Court of Philip IV of Spain: the «Incognito» Trip and the Problem of Exchanging Gifts by P. Yu. Kosheleva

“…Nevertheless, this ritual has not lost its symbolism and significance in the rhetoric of negotiations. …”
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Dialetics and Structural Organization in the Ẹ̀bìbì Festival Performances of the Ẹ̀pẹ́ People in Lagos State, Nigeria by Babatunde Olanrewaju Adebua, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa

“…The costumes and masks have motifs of riverine animals and fishing accessories. Color codes are symbolically white for cleansing, green for fertility, brown for earth and red for positive energy. …”
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Old History of Culture and New Cultural History by Zenonas Norkus

“…Geertz), culture is an aspect of social reality, represented by the authoritative patterns for action and symbols. This idea of culture invites a historian to consider culture not as a specific set of social phenomena that are concentrated in the particular "cultural institutions" or segment of society, but as an aspect which can be detected in any social phenomena. …”
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Les Noces Chymiques de Johann Valentin Andreae dans Die Geheimnisse et Das Märchen de Goethe by Annie Zdenek

“…In The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, Goethe borrowed alchemical symbols as theologian Andreae did in his esoteric novel and he sometimes parodied them so as to depict the process of development of his characters, but unlike Andreae, Goethe gave them a political and moral meaning: the new historical context of the end of the 18th century, that is to say the French revolution, weakened the German countries and divided the cultivated elite. …”
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French Islamophobia: How Orthopraxy Is Conceptualized as a Public Peril by Christina Lienen, Samir Sweida-Metwally

“…Notable examples include the 2004 national ban on “ostentatious religious symbols” in state schools, which prohibits obligatory religious dress in various settings. …”
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« Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics » Social Comedy, Nostalgia and a World of Fantasy (Wilde and Hofmannsthal) by Anne-Isabelle François

“…The article focuses on the social comedies where a reception is being held, these passages offering a key to understanding not only the lasting popularity of the productions, but also the symbolic value and general ambivalence of Wilde’s theatrical picture of the Victorian upper class. …”
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