Question

Your college experience leads eventually to your graduation, a ritual process that ushers you into the “real world” where you are expected to find a job and be a productive member of the larger society. In the model of ritual that Victor Turner describes, what does this entirety of your experience, including the graduation ceremony itself, help to promote?

Answer 1

Answer: They help to promote "communitas".

Explanation:

According to Turner, liminality brings about a state he calls "communitas". Communitas according to Turner is a relatively frameless society which is based on relations of equality and solidarity and which is opposed to the normative social structure.