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27 sty 2018 · PDF | In this chapter, we present the major anthropological currents that directly or indirectly made use of the notion of society in their theoretical... | Find, read and cite all the...
‘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.
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 movements, NGOs, subjects of social economics, etc.
This book is different. Its purpose is to lay out a research program for a cultural sociology and to show how this program can be concretely applied to some of the principal concerns of contemporary life. A great aporia marks the birth of sociology—a great, mysterious, and unexplained rupture.
Social Darwinism consisted of the various attempts to transfer biological laws into the socioeconomic sphere and to draw parallelisms between biological and social evolution. As a political doctrine, social Darwinism reinforced popular beliefs in the racial superiority of the Europeans.
5 wrz 2018 · Subsequently, the entry outlines the theoretical development of social and cultural anthropology during the twentieth century and the way in which this came to a moment of decisive crisis in...
Anthropology is the study of humankind. Of all the disciplines that examine aspects of human existence and accomplishments, only Anthropology explores the entire panorama of the human experience from human origins to contemporary forms of culture and social life.
