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The article analyses the area of cultural activities outside the institutional circulation of culture, or within that framework but focusing on social values of art. Culture is understood here in its wide anthropological and sociological sense; by the subjects of culture, the author means individual producers, informal groups and social ...
9 paź 2003 · Article. The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology. October 2003. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195160840.001.0001. Authors: Jeff Alexander. To read the full-text of this research,...
5 wrz 2018 · This entry begins by outlining the roots of modern anthropology and then moves to the end of the nineteenth century, when Darwinian influence led to the growth of academic anthropology.
‘State’ shows how anthropology has used the concept to convey and prescribe stabilised order and classificatory identities within bounded social units, the message being that state and nation-state are ideological constructs that, when applied to social life, lead to skewed expectations.
10 maj 2022 · Social anthropology studies the construction and mechanisms of social systems, as well as the interactions among these systems, their members, and the larger environment.
2 kwi 2021 · This introduction to the special issue Qualifying Sociality through Values interrogates the relationship between sociality and values, two concepts that have gained increasing traction in anthropology, but which have not previously been jointly considered.
9 paź 2003 · Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, it shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions.
