Methods of Functional Anthropology
Author | : Vladimír V. Novotný |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Physical anthropology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Vladimír V. Novotný |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Physical anthropology |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : |
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Author | : Walter Goldschmidt |
Publisher | : Berkeley, U. of California P |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
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Author | : Jonathan H. Turner |
Publisher | : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Vladimír V. Novotny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Peter Sohlberg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2021-03-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000370909 |
An understanding of the complex consequences of social processes and social design activities necessitates a holistic systemic perspective, systematised in the classic structural-functional research tradition, which is presented in Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science. In contrast to fragmented discussions of functionalism and functional analyses, the approach here covers a span ranging from ontological, epistemological and primarily methodological aspects of functionalism. The functionalist tradition in social science is placed in a historic context, and problematised from a philosophy of science perspective. Unique here is a detailed account of four classic functionalist research programmes with a discussion of functionalism, not primarily as a worldview, but as systematic knowledge-generating research strategies. In addition to descriptive and causal questions, the importance of a further research question is demonstrated, i.e., the identification of crucial problems of social organisation. Functionalist research strategies and functional analysis are of interest for social scientists and students in sociology, political science, and social anthropology. Moreover, the book is relevant for researchers and students of philosophy of science and social science methodology
Author | : Gopāla Śaraṇa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : 9788131601631 |
This book is not a textbook in its real terms, but almost all the essays presented here deal with topics such as function/functionalism, structure/structuralism, diffusion/diffusionism, etc., which find a place in the syllabi of anthropology and cognate subjects taught in universities. Moreover, these issues are dealt with at much greater depth and in wider expanse. In no textbook is one likely to find the philosophical appraisal of functionalism discussed. Likewise, notions of structure and structuralism in social anthropology acquire a new look when these are viewed in the context of linguistic ideas. Even Levi-Strauss, who advised anthropologists to undertake such an exercise, did not take the issue to its logical conclusion himself. This attempt to tackle topics/issues - such as the universal definition of marriage, the nature of anthropological explanation, the concept of human nature, and the possibility of a nomothetic social anthropology - is sure to attract the attention of serious social science scholars.
Author | : Johannes Lenhard |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2015-07-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3668013772 |
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 62%, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: Even though scholars directly involved in the discourse were themselves not able to clearly differentiate between structuralism, functionalism and the various combinations of the two terms, retrospectively, two lines have been drawn. The first is between functionalism which was brought forward by Malinowski and his followers at the LSE and structural-functionalism. The latter was historically developed as a direct reply to a Malinowskian individualism by Radcliffe-Brown, Fortes and Evans-Pritchard. The line this essay is going to blur separates structural-functionalism from originally French structuralism as coined by Levi-Strauss. I argue that those retrospective lines are nowadays often as artificial as they were for contemporary scholars in the early 1900s. Many commonalities – in their striving for universal laws, and even their fallacies – are contrasted by some differences, mainly in their treatment of fieldwork and the concept of structure. The different schools of thought were organically growing out of each other rendering the continuity of features natural. Only paying attention in passing to the earlier, ‘purely’ functionalist school of Malinowski, I compare the structural functionalism most clearly visible in Radcliffe-Brown with Levi-Strauss’ structuralism. Let me briefly put forward his arguments on methods in general as well as function and structure in particular before Levi-Strauss enters the analysis.
Author | : Ian Jarvie |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789027720689 |
I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics, where Bronislaw Malinowski was the object of ancestor worship. Jarvie's doctorate was in philosophy, however, under the guidance of Karl Popper and John Watkins. He changed his department not as a defector but as a rebel, attempting to exorcize the ancestral spirit. He criticized the method of participant obser vation not as useless but as not comprehensive: it is neither necessary nor sufficient for the making of certain contributions to anthropology; rather, it all depends on the problem-situation. And so Jarvie remained an anthro pologist at heart, who, in addition to some studies in rather conventional anthropological or sociological molds, also studied the tribe of social scien tists, but also critically examining their problems - especially their overall, rather philosophical problems, but not always so: a few of the studies in cluded in this volume exemplify his work on specific issues, whether of technology, or architecture, or nationalism in the academy, or moviemaking, or even movies exhibiting excessive sex and violence. These studies attract his attention both on account of their own merit and on account of their need for new and powerful research tools, such as those which he has forged in his own intellectual workshop over the last two decades.
Author | : Ian Charles Jarvie |
Publisher | : Minneapolis : Burgess Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |