الطقوس سياق لفهم الفعل الاجتماعي

Abstract EN

Within the framework of affiliation groups, individuals engage in a type of social and religious practices and activities, which reveals through its process and context (space time), the life pattern of these people and their conditions within the environment.

Also These practices reveal the contents of individuals 'actions and behaviours according to which their identity (ethnic and gender) is established, These practices are named rituals and ceremonies as cultural elements that contribute to express the articulations of social and daily routine life of individual, and expressing the specificity of belonging to the local and similar with the social milieu.

The rituals have received great attention from sociologists and anthropologists, as they represent a direct source to understand social action and its manifest and latent consequences, and a descriptive model that reveals the merits of the communication interaction process between constant and variation in its foundations among families and social groups, The Algerian society embraces a wide variety of rituals, its practice is extend to include (the magical, the religious, the cultural and the economic), expresses the contract local heritage in (specificity, nature of practice and the ceremonial event for which these rituals are perform).

Through this research paper, we will try to shed light on the symbolism of rituals and the daily subsistence of individuals, and as a context for understand social action.