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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.
18 paź 2024 · Anthropological research methods are systematic approaches used to study human cultures and societies. These methods allow researchers to gather, analyze, and interpret data about human behavior. Understanding these methods is crucial for grasping how anthropologists explore cultural dynamics.
16 cze 2005 · We no longer have to rely on navel-gazing and speculation to understand why people are the way they are; we can instead turn to solid, objective findings. This book not only summarizes what we know about people; it also offers a coherent, easy-to-understand though radical, explanation.
22 kwi 2021 · In this introductory chapter the authors discuss ways of studying change that go beyond a chronology of events and sweeping laws of evolution and that take into account the ways in which people live through, experience, desire, create, and challenge change.
27 wrz 2023 · According to the latter, the practice of anthropological examination involves two distinct "levels": "the Native's point of view", representing life as experienced and recounted by the members of a society themselves, also known as the 'emic' level, and its counterpart, the analytical descriptions or explanations provided by the anthropologist, ...
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 ...
Ethnographic fieldwork, carried out according to the method of long-term participant-observation, is what defines social anthropology. The method is inductive and open-ended.
