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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’.
The secret to the compulsive power of social structures is that they have an inside. They are not only external to actors but internal to them. They are meaningful. These meanings are structured and socially produced, even if they are invisible. We must learn how to make them visible.
6 maj 2021 · The central question this article aims to address is whether sociology has anything to gain by returning to the role concept. While non-functionalist conceptualizations of role, particularly from interactionist perspectives, are not new, these have largely gone unnoticed in mainstream sociology.
Anthropologists of education seek to understand how teaching and learning are organized socially and culturally, but teaching and learning encounters are embedded within social processes, and basic theoretical questions cannot be decontextualized from political and applied questions.
28 mar 2024 · In this article Cristoph Wulf examines the basic concepts of pedagogy and educational science in the German-speaking world, looking at education and socialization from the perspective of educational anthropology.
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.
10 mar 2021 · This afterword to the Qualifying Sociality through Values special issue reflects on the challenge, aptly considered by each contributor, to revamp and rejuvenate the sociality concept in light of the ethical turn. It poses three questions.
