Abstract
Talcott Parsons’s general theory is so useful to connect various studies in social sciences. Therefore, using Parsons’s great theory, we can find the convergence between Mary Douglas’s Symbolic Anthropology and Clifford Geertz’s Interpretive Anthropology. Such finding tells us that law consists of categories rather than morality. Categories are often regarded as the sacred because they are essential to human thinking and ordering, and hence the protection of categories tends to be more important than punishment and relief. This characteristic of law is common in highly differentiated societies as well as undifferentiated or primitive societies, which have been the main subjects of anthropological research.
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