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Author : Robert Francis Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCSC:32106007045310
Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1551647427
Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical social science. He achieves this by grounding it within a metaphysic of "dialectical naturalism" or "evolutionary realism"--a tradition long ignored by academic philosophy. After reviewing the anthropological background of this worldview--the Greeks and the Enlightenment--Morris explores two essential themes. First, he critically assesses the main forms of dialectical naturalism, including Darwin's evolutionary theory, Marx's historical materialism, and the hylo-realism of the philosopher-scientist Mario Bunge. Second, he offers a strong plea to retain the dual heritage of anthropology as a historical science that combines both humanism and naturalism. A powerful philosophical manifesto, the book cogently upholds dialectical naturalism as the most grounding philosophy for anthropology and the social sciences.
Author : Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822388456
In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring, rather than abandoning, the concept of culture. Similarly, they all suggest that a theory which depends on the interested action of social beings—specifically practice theory, associated especially with the work of Pierre Bourdieu—requires a more developed notion of human agency and a richer conception of human subjectivity. Ortner shows how social theory must both build upon and move beyond classic practice theory in order to understand the contemporary world. Some of the essays reflect explicitly on theoretical concerns: the relationship between agency and power, the problematic quality of ethnographic studies of resistance, and the possibility of producing an anthropology of subjectivity. Others are ethnographic studies that apply Ortner’s theoretical framework. In these, she investigates aspects of social class, looking at the relationship between race and middle-class identity in the United States, the often invisible nature of class as a cultural identity and as an analytical category in social inquiry, and the role that public culture and media play in the creation of the class anxieties of Generation X. Written with Ortner’s characteristic lucidity, these essays constitute a major statement about the future of social theory from one of the leading anthropologists of our time.
Author : Shannon Brincat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317413080
This volume explores the conceptual, methodological and praxeological aspects of dialectical analysis in world politics. As dialectics has remained an under-theorised analytical tool in international relations, this volume provides a critical resource for those seeking to deploy dialectics in their own research by showcasing its effectiveness for understanding and transforming world politics. Contributions demonstrate a number of innovative ways in which dialectical thinking can be of benefit to the study of world politics by covering three thematic concerns: (i) conceptual or meta-theoretical dimensions of dialectics; (ii) methodological features and general principles of dialectical approaches; and (iii) applications and/or case studies that deploy a dialectical approach to world politics. Canvassing a diverse range of dialectical approaches on key issues in world politics – from global security to postcolonial resistances, from the theoretical problems of reification and complexity, to the study of the global futures and the intercultural historical expressions of dialectics – Dialectics and World Politics offers key insights into the social forces and contradictions that are generative of transformation in world politics and yet routinely downplayed in orthodox approaches to international relations. Each chapter demonstrates how dialectics can be utilized more broadly in the discipline and deployed in a critical fashion as part of an emancipatory project. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.
Author : G. Skoll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137387066
Dialectics in Social Thought examines the work of thinkers who used dialectics in their attempts to understand the world. Among them are foundational thinkers such as Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche; seminal social critics of the last century such as Camus and Sartre; and current contributors like Badiou, Rancière, and Žižek.
Author : Richard R. Randolph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429713316
This book examines gang rape, clitoridectomy, abduction of women, ritual belittling of men, modern feminist criticism, and the "war between the sexes". It deals with the politics of large state-sized units and conflict in the form of overt war between Indians and colonial powers.
Author : William Rawlins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351518956
In this volume, Dr. Rawlins traces and investigates the varieties, tensions, and functions of friendship for males and females throughout the life course. Using both conceptual and illustrative chapters, the book portrays the degrees of involvement, choice, risk, ambivalence, and ambiguity within friendships, and explores the emotional texture of interactions among friends. A concluding section examines the prospects for friendship in the course of our post-modern blurring of public and private domains and discursive sites.
Author : Aleksandr Davidovich Shve?t?s?er
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027215178
Translation from the original Russian edition. The first Soviet text-book on sociolinguistics, the book introduces the reader to some of its basic problems, such as language and social structure, language as a social factor, language and nation, language and culture, language and the sociology of an individual, sociolinguistics and Marxist sociology. It focuses on such theoretical issues as the subject-matter of sociolinguistics, the functioning of sociocommunicative systems, language policy and social aspects of verbal behavior.
Author : David H. DeGrood
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Philosophy, Modern
ISBN : 9060320670
Author : R.F. Geyer,J. van der Zouwen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461340959
Author : Charles William Nuckolls
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cognition and culture
ISBN : 0299151239
Author : Maurice Bloch
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415330602
Reflecting the first evaluation among British and American anthropologists of the relevance of Marxist theory for their discipline, the studies in this volume cover a wide geographical and social spectrum ranging from rural Indonesia, Imperial China, Highland Burma and the Abron kingdom of Gyaman. A critical survey assesses the value of some key ideas of Marx and Engels to social anthropology and places in historical perspective the changing attitudes of social anthropologists to the Marxist tradition. Originally published in 1975.
Author : E. V. Ilyenkov
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Capital
ISBN : 8189833383
The book presents an integral Marxist conception of the dialectics and methodology of scientific theoretical cognition, of the dialectical interrelation between the abstract and the concrete, of the unity of the historical and the logical, of the correlat
Author : William Simon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415106265
Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.
Author : Sulayman N. Khalaf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000207057
Studying a rural village in northern Syria during a period of tremendous social and political change (1940s to 1970s), this book offers a unique perspective on how agrarian transformations in land distribution and its use deeply affected social and political relations among a rural community. Embedding the personal with the local and the global, this work traces the seeds of social, political and economic struggles that are still important and unfolding in Syria forty years on: changes in social relations brought about by land policy and technological modernization, divisions and connections between urban and rural locations, shifts in education and immigration. Thematically, the study is divided into two parts: the first concerns the historical, socio-economic and political changes occurring in Syria from the beginning of the twentieth century, and the second concerns the life histories of particular actors and their perspectives on social changes. This book is the edited and updated version of Khalaf’s original work, including an ‘updating chapter’ which brings invaluable insight about the village and its people at the aftermath of ISIS and the destruction of the war in Syria. Focusing on the village community of Hawi Al-Hawa, this intensely knowledgeable and personal account — a rare combination — brings village life in Syria strikingly close. The volume is an important contribution to the fields of anthropology, social sciences, Syrian and Middle East studies.