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| Author | : Bronislaw Malinowski |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2014-03-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317833872 |
Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture.
| Author | : Alex Mesoudi |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2011-07-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226520455 |
Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture. Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, Alex Mesoudi shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. This cross-disciplinary volume focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically—from theoretical modeling to lab experiments, archaeological fieldwork to ethnographic studies—and shows how apparently disparate methods can complement one another to the mutual benefit of the various social science disciplines. Along the way, the book reveals how new insights arise from looking at culture from an evolutionary angle. Cultural Evolution provides a thought-provoking argument that Darwinian evolutionary theory can both unify different branches of inquiry and enhance understanding of human behavior.
| Author | : Marvin Harris |
| Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
| Total Pages | : 824 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780759101333 |
The best known, most often cited history of anthropological theory is finally available in paperback! First published in 1968, Harris's book has been cited in over 1,000 works and is one of the key documents explaining cultural materialism, the theory associated with Harris's work. This updated edition included the complete 1968 text plus a new introduction by Maxine Margolis, which discusses the impact of the book and highlights some of the major trends in anthropological theory since its original publication. RAT, as it is affectionately known to three decades of graduate students, comprehensively traces the history of anthropology and anthropological theory, culminating in a strong argument for the use of a scientific, behaviorally-based, etic approach to the understanding of human culture known as cultural materialism. Despite its popularity and influence on anthropological thinking, RAT has never been available in paperback_until now. It is an essential volume for the library of all anthropologists, their graduate students, and other theorists in the social sciences.
| Author | : C. P. Snow |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2012-03-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107606144 |
The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.
| Author | : Marvin Harris |
| Publisher | : AltaMira Press |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2001-08-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0759116962 |
Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential starting point for explaining the science of culture to students. Now available again after a hiatus, this edition of Cultural Materialism contains the complete text of the original book plus a new introduction by Orna and Allen Johnson that updates his ideas and examines the impact that the book and theory have had on anthropological theorizing.
| Author | : William H. Sewell Jr. |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2009-07-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226749193 |
While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists’ treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians. Renowned for his work at the crossroads of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, Sewell argues that only by combining a more sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge. In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.
| Author | : Bronislaw Malinowski |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2015-12-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1469626098 |
Malinowski presents in this book his definitive statement of the theory of functionalism. As the essential clue to the understanding of human behavior, primitive and civilized, he analyzes the functional principle that culture is an examination of the fundamentals of anthropology for the purpose of constructing a general system to explain the facts of culture by this principle. Originally published 1944. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
| Author | : Oscar Fernández |
| Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2012-01-24 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1466911816 |
This book is a elaborated research about one of the most important Anthropologist in the history of the discipline, who initialized the modern Anthropology: Bronislaw Malinowski. This Social Scientist, with his methodological innovations, became one of the proponents of the 20th century transformation of speculative anthropology into the modern Science of Humanity and the master who trained an entire generation of anthropologists whose studies and theories dominated the academic world until the second half of the 20th century.
| Author | : Andrew Pickering |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 1992-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0226668010 |
Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice—the work of doing science—and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on. Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists of science to prepare original essays for this volume. The essays range over the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and are divided into two parts. In part I, the contributors map out a coherent set of perspectives on scientific practice and culture, and relate their analyses to central topics in the philosophy of science such as realism, relativism, and incommensurability. The essays in part II seek to delineate the study of science as practice in arguments across its borders with the sociology of scientific knowledge, social epistemology, and reflexive ethnography.
| Author | : John Brockman |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1996-05-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0684823446 |
This eye-opening look at the intellectual culture of today--in which science, not literature or philosophy, takes center stage in the debate over human nature and the nature of the universe--is certain to spark fervent intellectual debate.
