This category focuses on the stories, symbols, practices, and shared meanings through which societies make sense of the world. Articles examine culture as an active process—one that shapes perception, guides action, and constructs reality through language, ritual, media, and everyday interaction.
Framing the Comparison Placed side by side, Hadestown and The Great Flood reveal not merely different narrative traditions, but fundamentally different assumptions about how meaning, dignity, and hope are produced and sustained in social life. Both works depict catastrophe. Both center collective survival. Yet they diverge sharply in how they organize interpretation and response. Using […]
Interpretive Frame This essay examines the 2021 South Korean film, The Great Flood, as a modern disaster epic that offers a radically different moral architecture from Western narratives of catastrophe. Drawing on symbolic interactionism and my EIR cycle (Experiences–Interpretations–Responses), the film can be read as an exploration of how collective meaning is stabilized in moments
Hadestown: Archetype, Recognition, and the Social Construction of Hope Interpretive Frame This essay reads Hadestown as a modern myth that stages the tension between archetypal human patterns and socially constructed systems of meaning. Drawing on Jungian psychology, symbolic interactionism, and my EIR cycle (Experiences–Interpretations–Responses), it explores how hope, fear, dignity, and power are not fixed
Interpretive FrameThis essay approaches culture not as a static collection of shared meanings, but as an ongoing narrative produced through interaction, memory, and response. By examining how stories, symbols, and practices are lived, contested, and transformed, it invites reflection on our own participation in meaning-making—and the responsibilities that participation entails. Culture is often spoken of
