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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.
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.
Cultural anthropology describes and analyzes the social and cultural life of contemporary and historically recent human societies. Anthropological linguistics investigates the interrelationships among language and other aspects of a people's way of life.
Understanding of Humanity and Human Culture throughout the past and present; through time and space (broadest social science) Textbook: discipline of infinite curiosity about human beings Distinct from other disciplines because of its holistic approach and distinct curiosity Holistic Approach: Anthropologists study the many aspects of human ...
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.
29 lis 2023 · Culture is the patterns of learned and shared behavior and beliefs of a particular social, ethnic, or age group. It can also be described as the complex whole of collective human beliefs with a structured stage of civilization that can be specific to a nation or time period.
Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture.
