Assignment task: An introduction and conclusion discussing these questions and main topics
1. Briefly distinguish doxa, heterodoxy, and orthodoxy
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages for human beings living within each of these symbolic universes?
3. Becker connects despair and the death of meaning with the experience of heterodoxy and would argue that those cultures that operated within a singular world view were spared the death of meaning to a greater extent. Kueneman would also agree that small scale communities (which were also operating within a doxa) would experience less despair, but for very different reasons. Contrast these positions.