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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.
16 cze 2005 · The answers are often surprising, and along the way, the author explains how human desire, thought, feeling, and action are connected. Keywords: humans, society, human evolution, culture, victimization, genes, desire.
10 paź 2024 · In essence, economic anthropology bridges the gap between the economic and the social, blending the analytical tools of economics with the cultural sensitivity of anthropology. It enriches our understanding of economic life by shedding light on the social and cultural underpinnings of economic behavior.
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.
Economists could initially dismiss anthropology’s contributions to the larger practical task at hand because, “in addition to a lack of interest in social change, [Anthropology] has been marked by lack of a theory of change powerful enough to have practical consequences.”
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.
Economic anthropology is concerned with how human societies sustain themselves materially and socially through schemes of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption.
