Aleksandar Trudić
Novi Sad

COMPARATIVE METHOD: POSSIBILITY OF OBSERVATION OF THE LANGUAGE AND DEITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE WORK OF ERNST KASSIRER

Summary

This sociological study has proved one of the many already concluded aspirations of the society that is certainly heading the future, in the even more apparent direction of individualism. Ernst Kassirer's standpoints on the topics of language, myths and deities and Antonina Kloskowska's theoretical models of the culture and symbolic communication were used in making the essey (in addition, some critique of other philosophers, such as, Lucien Henry and Emile Durkheim were given in the essey). In the methodology of sociological research, content analysis with the theoretical support in sociolinguistcs (which is not studied in all departments of sociology studies) is necessary in order to be able to interpret religious literature in sociocultural context, especially in contemporary society in the time of expansion of new religious communities. These new religious communities frequently but not necessarily bring novelty that could oppose free life of an individual, and as previously mentioned in the essey, sociologists and theologists have no choice but to find the reasons of emergence of the new and re-emergence of the very old religions.

Key words: Kassirer, Kloskowska, religion, culture, society, symbols, values, content analysis, sociolinguistic.