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16 cze 2005 · What makes us human? Why do people think, feel, and act as they do? What is the essence of human nature? What is the basic relationship between the individual and society? These questions have fascinated people for centuries.
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.
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 concrete actions and institutions.
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 The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of...
13 sie 2021 · Anthropology—the science and study of human and societal culture, language and biology—and engineering—the application of science to create machines and implement technologies and tangible solutions to societal problems—are unique and distinct disciplines that infrequently share curricular overlap.
In this chapter, I argue that social anthropology has already discovered a great deal about human technological activity-especially when anthropologi-cal findings are interpreted in the context of recent, stunning advances in the sociology of scientific knowledge (11), the history and sociology of technol-
