A wedding is not about the love between two people, but about the adoration of society for itself. You love me. Durkheim's outlook forcefully argues for the societal constitution and re-integrative functions of ritual. A symbol is the smallest unit of ritual which still retains the specific properties of ritual behavior. Importantly, Turner identified a three-phased process of ritual.
Social structure refers to the normatively proscribed arrangement of positions.
Communitas refers to liminality, marginality, inferiority, and equality. The characteristics of the social structure are no longer and not yet applicable during the period of liminality in ritual and other forms of communitas. Below I will further develop the central argument of this presentation that the films of Alfred Hitchcock are to be conceived as rituals of liminality. Hitch's Case 4. Public Guilt 7.