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11 lis 2024 · Social anthropology is the subdiscipline of anthropology that investigates the cultural properties of human societies. Topics include cultural norms, morals, laws and customs, and there...
6 maj 2021 · The concept of social role has all but disappeared from contemporary sociology. This article aims to recover the concept through a consideration of competing accounts of social normativity, particularly those emerging from Parsons, Foucault, Bourdieu and practice theory.
Anthropology Today is an international journal aiming to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues.
7 wrz 2022 · An anthropology of the social contract explores ethnographically how this pervasive concept, laden with assumptions about human nature, political organisation, government, and notions such as freedom, consensus and legitimacy, impacts state–society relations in different settings.
2 kwi 2021 · A central reason for their appeal is their potential to promote anthropology’s distinctive pursuit of examining social life in concrete ethnographic contexts by offering more apposite tools for this purpose than the extensively discredited concepts of ‘society’ and ‘culture’.
1 cze 2023 · This review of research published in some major peer-reviewed Anglophone European journals in 2021 seeks to vindicate the optimistic kind of moral realism by showing its inescapable entanglement in two of the most powerful items on anthropologists’ agendas today, the ontological and the future-oriented.
16 sie 2023 · A cosmopolitan anthropology recognizes an embodied human individual, an ‘Anyone’, the universal individual human being, as the constituent unit of human life and society (‘Life is individual’ (D. H. Lawrence));
