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Modern men and women go about their lives without really knowing why. Why do we work for such a long time every day? Why do we finish one war only to fight another? Why are we so obsessed with technology? Why do we live in an age of scandal?
Anthony Giddens in chapter 1 of his work Modernity and Self-Identity gives a holistic approach to the concept of "modernity". Such an approach is made possible through his revision of modernity with respect to the pre-modern social life.
Key words: Social anthropology, biological anthropology, cultures, personhood, identity, boundaries, fieldwork, migration, globalisation, boundaries, applied anthropology. This course is designed to explore what it means to be human in diverse societies around the world today, and how people interact with, and change, their environments.
16 cze 2005 · This book not only summarizes what we know about people; it also offers a coherent, easy-to-understand though radical, explanation. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the author argues that culture shaped human evolution.
Social Stratification and Social Class The idea of "social mobility" embodies a belief in the constant movement of individuals into greater prosperity; over their own life cycle, as one generation
Presenting a ground-breaking revitalisation of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and sociology.
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...
