Seen from the 'inside' of an already symbolic universe, 'deviance'presents itself as a property inhering in the acts so characterised.

A well-written sociological treatise creates its own symbolic universe, just as a great novel or play does.

Symbols are the deep grammar of experience, and the alchemist inhabits a symbolic universe.

The symbolic universe "puts everything in its right place".

Theoretical experts and schools of thought are competing for maintaining today's symbolic universe .

Humanity cannot be known directly, but has to be known through the analysis of the symbolic universe that man has created historically.

These were thought to define the true limits of the symbolic universe.

Such "naïve theories" are what compose our symbolic universe.

This book is a journey into the symbolic universe of the painter who revolutionized the concept of space.