Analysis of Turner and BlochFor many cultures, rituals are part of everyday life and provide purpose and meaning to life. Simple ceremonies like a prayer before a meal, a Bar Mitzvah for a teenager, or even a wedding for a couple in love fill our lives with such meaning, but are never given a second thought about the depth behind such rituals. Anthropologists Victor Turner and Maurice Bloch both created ritual models that describe the attainment of higher social statuses. Turner discusses ideologies on liminality and how this relates to rites of passage for human beings. Maurice Bloch instead describes his ideas of rebirth and how these relate to rituals within various cultures. According to Turner, the transition period for humans is a fixed state within one's culture. As Victor Turner states, “In such rites we are presented with a 'moment in and out of time,' and in and out of secular social structure, which reveals, however fleetingly, some recognition of a generalized social bond.” (VT: 96). Therefore, liminality is an important transitional concept regarding social power structures. In Turner's initiation model, he describes rituals as a kind of formula composed of behaviors and relationships, which ultimately result in social change. For Turner, such rites of passage and rituals are not the central structure of life, but rather exponential opportunities within one's life. In Turner's analysis of the Ndembu tribe he found that a man's transition from childhood to adulthood (Mukunda) that ritual practices are not the foundation of a boy's adulthood, but rather a transition of possibility and potential . At the beginning of the three-step process or… in the middle of the paper… liminality can be found universally in all cultures. In contrast, Bloch's ideas on religiosity and ritual can be limited to a broader spectrum. Although such rituals may not be practiced as formally as others, humans must go through a period of transition (liminality) to achieve any kind of social change. And, ultimately, social change is of great value, or even ultimate desire, in many cultures. For example, in American culture the concept of the “American dream”. For many people in the United States, the idea is to “keep up with the Joneses” or even do better than our parents. For many it is almost impossible to achieve such social change without a period of liminality. (VT: 106) This concept is the basis of colleges and the American military. Young Americans enter this period of liminality and achieve social change through such community with others.