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16 cze 2005 · Contrary to theories that depict the individual's relation to society as one of victimization, endless malleability, or just a square peg in a round hole, he proposes that the individual human being is designed by nature to be part of society.
27 sty 2018 · In this chapter, we present the major anthropological currents that directly or indirectly made use of the notion of society in their theoretical reflections and analyses of empirical data.
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.
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.
26 cze 2017 · Awareness of and attention to social inequalities have elicited two basic perspectives from ancient to modern times: support for a system of inequalities based on the idea that they are necessary to social life, just and equitable despite appearances, and/or inevitable; and on the other hand criticism and denunciation of inequalities as unjust ...
2 kwi 2021 · This introduction to the special issue Qualifying Sociality through Values interrogates the relationship between sociality and values, two concepts that have gained increasing traction in anthropology, but which have not previously been jointly considered.
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-
