They could make people more self-conscious and aware. US has not had strong currents of this social thought. Live in world with its history, imagination, and collective experience, that is continually becoming known to us. Being revealed is a meaning in the world. Our struggle for a social existence is a search for meaning and an attempt at its fulfillment.
Expectation is for a world filled with unconditioned meaning.
Social analysis of the 20th century systematically tried to exclude the metaphysical from interpretation and understanding. Other concepts of reality like developing an order of natural process, social structures, or the self have been substituted. Must use hermeneutical understanding, recognize the importance of speaking and interpreting the symbols that give meaning to our existence. Social existence is both material and symbolic. Need to become myth makers, cultural workers.