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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 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 ...
6 maj 2021 · Abstract. Does sociology have anything to gain by returning to the concept of social role? Has this concept been irretrievably damaged by its significance in functionalist theory? This article aims to recover the role concept through a consideration of alternative perspectives on normativity, illustrated through research on motherhood.
1 gru 2022 · In socio-cultural anthropology, assumptions about what competition does have been carried over from the social evolutionary frameworks that jockeyed for influence at the discipline's inception.
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 is...
10 mar 2021 · It poses three questions. Firstly, just how important are values for sociality? That is, to what extent is social action really conceived and executed through values? Secondly, how does sociality itself figure as a value, and how should we accommodate values that are not obviously prosocial such as separation and withdrawal?
27 sty 2018 · Dynamic anthropology, a trend that emerged in response to the lack of consideration for social change, completes this section on the French school of thought.
