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This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume, which is about social life and cultural sociology.
In premodern societies, personal problems and relationships affect the community as a small entity of individuals but not the society at large. In return, modernity generates changes in the social life of individuals, families and any other institutions (Giddens 12).
The course also provides tools for thinking about moral decisions as social and historical practices, and permits students to compare and contextualize the ways people in different times and places approach fundamental ethical concerns.
Anthropology, or more particularly social anthropology, sustains itself in its popular discourse by dividing its past into a number of stages each of which may be regarded as having been safely surpassed.
16 cze 2005 · Contrary to theories that depict the individual's relation to society as one of victimization, endless malleability, or just a square peg in a round hole, he proposes that the individual human being is designed by nature to be part of society.
These three principal phases correspond to three major periods in the history of philosophy, that is, ancient, medieval and modern. In the ancient period, the Greek philosophers studied man on the plane of nature or cosmos and understood him in the cosmo-centric perspective.
Radcliffe-Brown makes a sharp distinction between history and social anthropology on practical and theoretical grounds. 'In the primitive societies that are studied by social anthropology there are no historical records' (Radcliffe-Brown I952, P. 3); and 'confusions amongst anthropologists result from the failure to distinguish between
