The Economic Approach to the Social Sciences – Scope and
... Basic assumption: Actors chose the alternative that they appreciate most, i.e. which has the highest utility for them (rational choice behavior). Forms of rationality: Objective rationality: Actors have perfect information about all relevant alternatives and maximize their individual utility. Subjec ...
... Basic assumption: Actors chose the alternative that they appreciate most, i.e. which has the highest utility for them (rational choice behavior). Forms of rationality: Objective rationality: Actors have perfect information about all relevant alternatives and maximize their individual utility. Subjec ...
Restudy and Reflexivity in Anthropology and Development
... upon the world over others. This is true of both of Ferguson’s definitions of myth; indeed it is the point at which the two converge. Fairhead explores his role in creating and sustaining the myth of the new farmer, the ways in which it is factually inaccurate (presenting farmers as having a shared ...
... upon the world over others. This is true of both of Ferguson’s definitions of myth; indeed it is the point at which the two converge. Fairhead explores his role in creating and sustaining the myth of the new farmer, the ways in which it is factually inaccurate (presenting farmers as having a shared ...
Analysing Discontinuous Innovation
... or the same things by a different method, means to combine these materials and forces differently. In so far as the “new combination” may in time grow out of the old by continuous adjustment in small steps, there is certainly change, possibly growth, but neither a new phenomenon nor development in o ...
... or the same things by a different method, means to combine these materials and forces differently. In so far as the “new combination” may in time grow out of the old by continuous adjustment in small steps, there is certainly change, possibly growth, but neither a new phenomenon nor development in o ...
TRUTH IN ANTHROPOLOGY: FROM NATURE AND CULTURE TO
... they all had the capacity for truth.2 However, alongside other obvious markers (such as degrees of technological sophistication, social complexity, and moral refinement), one of the things that made human beings naturally different from each other was that they had developed this capacity to differ ...
... they all had the capacity for truth.2 However, alongside other obvious markers (such as degrees of technological sophistication, social complexity, and moral refinement), one of the things that made human beings naturally different from each other was that they had developed this capacity to differ ...
7 Kinship systems and groups
... domestic family is established. Almost every African society has some form of descent group, however transitory, as the basis of its social organization. The recognition of these variations of ancestral descent is an effective way of constructing local groups that can last for several—often for many ...
... domestic family is established. Almost every African society has some form of descent group, however transitory, as the basis of its social organization. The recognition of these variations of ancestral descent is an effective way of constructing local groups that can last for several—often for many ...
On the units of geographical economics
... single industry in economics. Krugman’s broad category of manufacturers may produce differentiated products, but in their generalised activity they are all essentially part of one unified sector. The third unit upon which geographical economics relies is the firm. This is the decision-making unit that ...
... single industry in economics. Krugman’s broad category of manufacturers may produce differentiated products, but in their generalised activity they are all essentially part of one unified sector. The third unit upon which geographical economics relies is the firm. This is the decision-making unit that ...
Economics and Happiness Research: Insights
... life remained constant while standards of living have improved on almost all margins? One explanation, related to the Easterlin paradox is grounded in the way people view or frame their position in society. Indeed much of the economics and happiness literature focuses on a “hedonic treadmill” effect ...
... life remained constant while standards of living have improved on almost all margins? One explanation, related to the Easterlin paradox is grounded in the way people view or frame their position in society. Indeed much of the economics and happiness literature focuses on a “hedonic treadmill” effect ...
Anthropology and Me
... our mental self. We are all carrying around a virtual bag of information with us. If we printed out all the information contained in our desktops or our cell phones, it would be an enormous pile of paper and information. If we lose our information, it often feels like a part of us has gone missing. ...
... our mental self. We are all carrying around a virtual bag of information with us. If we printed out all the information contained in our desktops or our cell phones, it would be an enormous pile of paper and information. If we lose our information, it often feels like a part of us has gone missing. ...
Scholarly Interest Report - Faculty Information System - Login
... Contemporary Europe and the Politics of a Changing Ethnographic Method." Publication from the LAOIS conference on New Approaches to the Study of Politics "How Anthropological Curiosity Consumes Its Own Places of Origin." A French translation reprinted in Ethnologie Francaise, XXX (2000) : pp.147-52. ...
... Contemporary Europe and the Politics of a Changing Ethnographic Method." Publication from the LAOIS conference on New Approaches to the Study of Politics "How Anthropological Curiosity Consumes Its Own Places of Origin." A French translation reprinted in Ethnologie Francaise, XXX (2000) : pp.147-52. ...
Anthropology in the middle - Anthropology Emory
... Shifts in anthropology influence how our key terms are used. As the field becomes postparadigmatic, key concepts tend to be relativized, pluralized, and then reduced in status to an adjective – an entity that modifies something else rather than standing as a concept in its own right. Relatedly, decl ...
... Shifts in anthropology influence how our key terms are used. As the field becomes postparadigmatic, key concepts tend to be relativized, pluralized, and then reduced in status to an adjective – an entity that modifies something else rather than standing as a concept in its own right. Relatedly, decl ...
Cultural Anthropology - An
... disciplines of the social sciences, and critically assesses the practical applicability to real-life situations. COURSE AIMS to give an overview over how Social Anthropology has developed as an academic discipline since the 19th century, to introduce the main theories and thinkers that have had an i ...
... disciplines of the social sciences, and critically assesses the practical applicability to real-life situations. COURSE AIMS to give an overview over how Social Anthropology has developed as an academic discipline since the 19th century, to introduce the main theories and thinkers that have had an i ...
CPT Economics Additional MCQS with Answers
... the wealth of the nation: A. C. pigou. b) Science which deals with wealth: Alfred Marshall. c) Economics is the science, which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses: Robbins. d) The range of our enquiry becomes restricted to that part of ...
... the wealth of the nation: A. C. pigou. b) Science which deals with wealth: Alfred Marshall. c) Economics is the science, which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses: Robbins. d) The range of our enquiry becomes restricted to that part of ...
Cultural Transformations and Globalization: Theory, Development
... than diffusion or cultural borrowing. New items, when innovated, are distributed and accepted within particular societies, but then they have the potentiality of crossing societal and cultural boundaries that are always permeable at some level. This relates to the special adaptive capacity of human ...
... than diffusion or cultural borrowing. New items, when innovated, are distributed and accepted within particular societies, but then they have the potentiality of crossing societal and cultural boundaries that are always permeable at some level. This relates to the special adaptive capacity of human ...
Globalization and Global Problems
... structures and procedures (there is a significant increase in crossnational flows of trade, investment, and technology that reflects and reinforces a global division of labour; (2) Globalization goes beyond a simple economic shift created by the cross-border exchanges of high technology, instantaneo ...
... structures and procedures (there is a significant increase in crossnational flows of trade, investment, and technology that reflects and reinforces a global division of labour; (2) Globalization goes beyond a simple economic shift created by the cross-border exchanges of high technology, instantaneo ...
Supplement A from Henrich and Boyd, “Division of Labor, Economic
... Of particular interest are the stable equilibria. The equilibria are combinations of p1 and p2 that, according to equations (1) and (4), lead to no further change in behavior. An equilibrium is locally stable when the population will return to that equilibrium if perturbed. It is unstable if small s ...
... Of particular interest are the stable equilibria. The equilibria are combinations of p1 and p2 that, according to equations (1) and (4), lead to no further change in behavior. An equilibrium is locally stable when the population will return to that equilibrium if perturbed. It is unstable if small s ...
What Is Anthropology? - ANT 152
... Syracuse University and LeMoyne College Holds a B.A. and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, M.S. in Social Studies Secondary Education, and C.A.S. in Educational Leadership Taught in SCSD for 10 years and head of Social Studies for 6 years Loves Dachshunds (I have two of them) Professional Tarot ...
... Syracuse University and LeMoyne College Holds a B.A. and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, M.S. in Social Studies Secondary Education, and C.A.S. in Educational Leadership Taught in SCSD for 10 years and head of Social Studies for 6 years Loves Dachshunds (I have two of them) Professional Tarot ...
Barriers in the adoption of a market orientation by
... commercial reasons. As one manager in this case stated “our research shows that they (local business donors) support us because we have an excellent brand nationally and they can use this in their advertising...understanding our donors is critical to our fund raising success”. In contrast, responden ...
... commercial reasons. As one manager in this case stated “our research shows that they (local business donors) support us because we have an excellent brand nationally and they can use this in their advertising...understanding our donors is critical to our fund raising success”. In contrast, responden ...
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... Balance of Payments Manual (BPM5) put it that foreign exchange reserves are those external assets that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for meeting balance of payments financing needs, intervention in exchange markets to affect foreign exchange rates and other purposes ...
... Balance of Payments Manual (BPM5) put it that foreign exchange reserves are those external assets that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for meeting balance of payments financing needs, intervention in exchange markets to affect foreign exchange rates and other purposes ...
INTRODUCTION - Brunel University Research Archive
... Traditionally, when lenders evaluate borrowers to determine their creditworthiness for credit-risk assessment and management, they interview the applicants and ask them directly for personal information together with the relevant supporting documents. At the same time, they seek and gather informati ...
... Traditionally, when lenders evaluate borrowers to determine their creditworthiness for credit-risk assessment and management, they interview the applicants and ask them directly for personal information together with the relevant supporting documents. At the same time, they seek and gather informati ...
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... often extremely uncertain. The effectiveness of markets stems from the fact that they make complicated calculations possible, and that these produce practical solutions to ...
... often extremely uncertain. The effectiveness of markets stems from the fact that they make complicated calculations possible, and that these produce practical solutions to ...
Anthropology in Cameroon
... of Cameroon and the Bakweri in particular. Shirley’s continuous involvement with Cameroon studies and her collaboration with Sally Chilver (both are based at Oxford) are indications of their passionate commitment to the scholarship of this region. Kaberry and Chilver have inspired a growing number o ...
... of Cameroon and the Bakweri in particular. Shirley’s continuous involvement with Cameroon studies and her collaboration with Sally Chilver (both are based at Oxford) are indications of their passionate commitment to the scholarship of this region. Kaberry and Chilver have inspired a growing number o ...
anthropologies of the south: their rise, their silencing - Ram-Wan
... standards by means of a vague reference to a hypothetical originality, legitimated as such only by the geo-cultural situation of the place where it is produced. But the fact is that for the overwhelming majority of anthropologists from the North (including students), to pass a certain time at a univ ...
... standards by means of a vague reference to a hypothetical originality, legitimated as such only by the geo-cultural situation of the place where it is produced. But the fact is that for the overwhelming majority of anthropologists from the North (including students), to pass a certain time at a univ ...
real-world economics review
... stagnation commenced – driven, in this conjecture, by the actual drop in the rate of growth of population and a hypothesized decline in innovation – the economy was effectively in a liquidity trap, and somehow rising debt hid it from view. That is the broad brush, but I expect that explaining this w ...
... stagnation commenced – driven, in this conjecture, by the actual drop in the rate of growth of population and a hypothesized decline in innovation – the economy was effectively in a liquidity trap, and somehow rising debt hid it from view. That is the broad brush, but I expect that explaining this w ...
Kinship Studies in Brazil
... biological conception with the result that they were led to classify as relatives all those who received terms in the relations system. Not knowing the emic theory about conception, they failed to understand the distinction that exists between relatives and non-relatives. The mere translation of the ...
... biological conception with the result that they were led to classify as relatives all those who received terms in the relations system. Not knowing the emic theory about conception, they failed to understand the distinction that exists between relatives and non-relatives. The mere translation of the ...
ANTH 100 Introduction to Anthropology
... North America, because the maps used were created by Europeans who considered themselves the height of human development. When you look at the map with the Americas upside down, you look at the world from a different perspective. From space the earth has neither up nor down. Development of Anthropol ...
... North America, because the maps used were created by Europeans who considered themselves the height of human development. When you look at the map with the Americas upside down, you look at the world from a different perspective. From space the earth has neither up nor down. Development of Anthropol ...
Economic anthropology
Economic anthropology is a field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It is practiced by anthropologists and has a complex relationship with the discipline of economics, of which it is highly critical. Its origins as a sub-field of anthropology began with work by the Polish-British founder of anthropology Bronislaw Malinowski and his French compatriot[?] Marcel Mauss on the nature of reciprocity as an alternative to market exchange. For the most part, studies in economic anthropology focus on exchange. In contrast, the Marxian school known as ""political economy"" focuses on production.Post-World War II, economic anthropology was highly influenced by the work of economic historian Karl Polanyi. Polanyi drew on anthropological studies to argue that true market exchange was limited to a restricted number of western, industrial societies. Applying formal economic theory (Formalism) to non-industrial societies was mistaken, he argued. In non-industrial societies, exchange was ""embedded"" in such non-market institutions as kinship, religion, and politics (an idea he borrowed from Mauss). He labelled this approach Substantivism. The Formalist vs Substantivist debate was highly influential and defined an era.As globalization became a reality, and the division between market and non-market economies – between ""the west and the rest"" – became untenable, anthropologists began to look at the relationship between a variety of types of exchange within market societies. Neo-substantivists examine the ways in which so-called pure market exchange in market societies fails to fit market ideology. Economic anthropologists have abandoned the primitivist niche they were relegated to by economists. They now study the operations of corporations, banks, and the global financial system from an anthropological perspective.