NATIONAL RITES AS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AND CONTEMPORARY FUNCTIONS

Mamatkulova Nilufar Khusanovna

Authors

Mamatkulova Nilufar Khusanovna Acting Associate Professor, Department of Social and Humanitarian Sciences, Termez Branch of Tashkent State Medical University, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Philosophical Sciences

Keywords:

National rites, social institution, globalisation, legitimacy, political identity, historical memory, social integration, socialisation, intangible cultural heritage, national identity.

Abstract

The article examines national rites as an integral social institution and traces how their functions have changed from antiquity and the Middle Ages through the modern era to post-industrial society. Drawing on sociophilosophical analysis and the historical-comparative method, the author shows that national rites, once confined to securing communal unity and regulating everyday conduct, have become a systemic institution that shapes economic, political, social and cultural processes. The economic dimension is revealed through employment, consumer demand, the support of handicrafts and the circulation of financial resources; the political dimension through the legitimation of power, the formation of political identity and historical memory; the social dimension through integration, trust and socialisation; and the cultural dimension through the preservation of heritage, national identity and language under globalisation