Concept information
Preferred term
2222Secret societies
Broader concept
Scope note
- Οrganizations whose activities, functioning or membership are concealed from non-members. Secret societies have their own particular set of rituals and beliefs, their founding myth and their mission, that give the members a common ethos and sustain them as parts of a distinct collectivitiy. Secret societies can be elite or non-elite, defined by age, gender or profession; they can be religious, sectarian or political, subversive or deep-state. Their secrecy is due to issues of legality, elitism, and formation of niches and networks of influence and power. Secret societies, real and fictional, have very often been objects of conspiracy theories, propaganda and demonisation.
Source
- Ownby & Somers Heidhues 1993
- Wunder 2008
Contributor
- Katsiadakis Helen (AA)
Creator
- Tzedopoulos Giorgos (AA)
Notation
- 2222
In other languages
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Greek
URI
https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/2222
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