This theory is most often associated with the French anthropologist Claude L vi-Strauss. While the organic nature of humans may limit social life, such nature does not determine life as such. Superorganic factors must also be taken into account. Any word, gesture or object which stands for or expresses something else is a symbol. Thus, a flag is a symbol of a country.
Different cultures use different sets of symbols or forms of symbolism.
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