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This class comprises actions of a symbolic nature that are intentionally carried out by instances of E39 Actor and are transformative in consequence on a cultural and/or social level, initiating new instances of institutional fact or terminating the existence of previous institutional facts within that society / culture. An instance of transformative symbolic act is carried out within a social-cultural framework and makes use of the codes and symbols of that framework to communicate a message symbolically. As with any symbolic act, it may affirm or challenge one or more institutional facts recognized within such a system, but the specific difference of a transformative symbolic act is to be the cause of both new institutional facts and of the demise of existing institutional facts.

Instances of transformative symbolic act begin when an E39 Actor intentionally engages in an action invoking an existing code or symbol with the intent to affirm or challenge an institutional fact and end when the invoking act / practice has been completed (or was interupted). The end of a transformative symbolic act is necessarily accompanied by the change in composition of the overall set of institutional facts of the social cultural framework in which it was undertaken, with one or more instances thereof either coming into or going out of existence.

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