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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 a...
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’.
10 mar 2021 · This afterword to the Qualifying Sociality through Values special issue reflects on the challenge, aptly considered by each contributor, to revamp and rejuvenate the sociality concept in light of the ethical turn. It poses three questions.
6 maj 2021 · This article will argue that a pragmatist conceptualization of social roles provides a non-voluntarist route to understanding agent engagements with normative authority, as well as interests and situated needs (Joas, 1996: 161).
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 ...
In forming a critical, concerned, and empirical perspective, Social Analysis encourages contributions that break away from the disciplinary bounds of anthropology and suggest innovative ways of challenging hegemonic paradigms through 'grounded theory', analysis based in original empirical research.
18 wrz 2017 · Social ‘constructedness’ – and thus malleability of human life forms – is a rather commonplace proposition in sociology. The gist of the idea is: all that is constructed can be reconstructed, deconstructed, in short, changed at will. Radical versions of it hold: all in society is constructed.
