Sociocosmic

Though conceptualized by introspection and terminology, this identity is not differentiated from a sociocosmic order that defines self as status and status as cosmology; through speech, posture, and manners, the entire psycho-sociocosmic complex is maintained.

The notion of the smaller or sociocosmic universe is integrally tied to the Puranic notion of dharma.

The sociocosmic order (dharma) can be maintained only through sacrifice, which nourishes the gods of heaven, who in turn cause rain to fall on the earth at the right time; it is thus as a result of sacrifice that plants grow and that animals -- notably the cow -- and men can be nourished, and that they can prosper, and that they can offer sacrifices.

In the second case, the religious symbol ties or binds the self not to the social order but to self-transcendence. In such cases the self is understood not as a mirror of the sociocosmic order but as reality radically open to the infinite.

...one that is derived from similar Southeast Asian societies but that also contains within itself the explanation of why Maya sociocosmic classification differed in essential respects from its Asian counterpart.

It has remained a cardinal principle that only Brahmans have the authority to perform the most important rituals that preserve and renew the sociocosmic order.

To fear the witch "within" refers to the patient's feelings of isolation and exclusion in relation to the sociocosmic environment.

Furthermore, this vision invites us to thematize the sociocosmic biography of the exploited life, creatively pushing beyond the dialectical sociobiography of minjung and the innocent anthropocosmic vision.