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For example, the manner and order individuals are seated at dinner tables,
high state occasions,
or even meetings in a business setting can communicate messages of social order and
significance. Persons of different rank may be formally assigned to different seating locations or
roles during these rituals. Actors may assume these roles informally or out of habit as well and
recognize when different individuals are “out of place” by accidently or deliberately assuming a
position not typically assigned to them. These rituals signify social solidarity by noting who is an
insider or outsider to the ritual as well as the hierarchy of those participating inside the ritual.
Rituals then serve as a way to regularly construct and reconstruct the borders and subcategories
of social orders.
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