Chapter 5: Simmel - Amazon Web Services
... Georg Simmel (1858-1918) is best known as a microsociologist who played a significant role in the development of small-group research. Simmel's basic approach can be described as "methodological relationism," because he operates on the principle that everything interacts in some way with everything ...
... Georg Simmel (1858-1918) is best known as a microsociologist who played a significant role in the development of small-group research. Simmel's basic approach can be described as "methodological relationism," because he operates on the principle that everything interacts in some way with everything ...
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... been relatively untouched by the disciplinary manoeuvres through which cultural studies has gained its academic presence, and remains fairly immune to its advances. There appear to be few internal anxieties that the field might be deformed by any pronounced cultural turn. Of all the social sciences, ...
... been relatively untouched by the disciplinary manoeuvres through which cultural studies has gained its academic presence, and remains fairly immune to its advances. There appear to be few internal anxieties that the field might be deformed by any pronounced cultural turn. Of all the social sciences, ...
Hegemony and Culture in Historical Anthropology: A Review Essay
... modes of thinking, and physical representations that reflect or justify particular relations of power. The empirical basis is not only texts such as letters, reports, novels, and poetry but also buildings, clocks, village arrangements, rituals, and a whole series of materializations of everyday life ...
... modes of thinking, and physical representations that reflect or justify particular relations of power. The empirical basis is not only texts such as letters, reports, novels, and poetry but also buildings, clocks, village arrangements, rituals, and a whole series of materializations of everyday life ...
The sources of this essay are a bias
... first fundamentals of Western thought. “Time” cannot be retained as an elemental physical constant, but it can be apprehended in its highly intuitive, nonrepresentational form as the sense of now-ness or, better, here-ness, that pervades The Moment. That sense of being or being-here ultimately defie ...
... first fundamentals of Western thought. “Time” cannot be retained as an elemental physical constant, but it can be apprehended in its highly intuitive, nonrepresentational form as the sense of now-ness or, better, here-ness, that pervades The Moment. That sense of being or being-here ultimately defie ...
Towards a Generative Model of Nomadism
... adaptation to marginal environments. It is too often forgotten that nomads-as well as groups subsisting in other ways from marginal environments--could with few exceptions apply eithe the same or more advanced technologies to the exploitation of mom lush neighboring environments. As part of their ad ...
... adaptation to marginal environments. It is too often forgotten that nomads-as well as groups subsisting in other ways from marginal environments--could with few exceptions apply eithe the same or more advanced technologies to the exploitation of mom lush neighboring environments. As part of their ad ...
Cultural Landscape - Society for California Archaeology
... At one pole (the ideological) are found meanings that refer to components of the social and moral orders of society. At the other pole (the sensory) the meanings are either natural, or a physiological phenomenon, or processes that stimulate desires and feelings (in McGee and Warms 1996:448). Many el ...
... At one pole (the ideological) are found meanings that refer to components of the social and moral orders of society. At the other pole (the sensory) the meanings are either natural, or a physiological phenomenon, or processes that stimulate desires and feelings (in McGee and Warms 1996:448). Many el ...
Associate of Arts Degree - Anthropology Emphasis
... The Associate of Arts degree in anthropology is designed for students seeking careers in anthropology or related fields. The degree requirements include general education requirements to gain a breadth of knowledge in a wide array of disciplines. Students will also specialize in the theoretical, met ...
... The Associate of Arts degree in anthropology is designed for students seeking careers in anthropology or related fields. The degree requirements include general education requirements to gain a breadth of knowledge in a wide array of disciplines. Students will also specialize in the theoretical, met ...
“Authenticity, Anthropology and the Sacred
... faith offer little solace - only solipsism, self-delusion, or lofty contemplation of a world empty of significance. My comparison of anthropologists with priests and curators was meant to suggest that our discipline has particular responsibilities in this situation: we have a public duty not only to ...
... faith offer little solace - only solipsism, self-delusion, or lofty contemplation of a world empty of significance. My comparison of anthropologists with priests and curators was meant to suggest that our discipline has particular responsibilities in this situation: we have a public duty not only to ...
Archetypal Criticism
... archetypes existed in the collective unconscious. He based this assertion in part on the fact that there are images, character types, settings and story patterns that existed across cultures. • He suggested that this collective unconscious is not directly knowable and is a product of the shared expe ...
... archetypes existed in the collective unconscious. He based this assertion in part on the fact that there are images, character types, settings and story patterns that existed across cultures. • He suggested that this collective unconscious is not directly knowable and is a product of the shared expe ...
Claude Lévi
... There are three broad choices involved in the divergence of these schools – each had to decide what kind of evidence to use; whether to emphasize the particulars of a single culture or look for patterns underlying all societies; and what the source of any underlying patterns might be, the definition ...
... There are three broad choices involved in the divergence of these schools – each had to decide what kind of evidence to use; whether to emphasize the particulars of a single culture or look for patterns underlying all societies; and what the source of any underlying patterns might be, the definition ...
ANTH 2351 - HCC Learning Web
... What does it mean to say a society is egalitarian, ranked, or stratified? How do functionalist and conflict (or Neo-Marxist) theories explain social stratification? What do power, wealth, and prestige refer to in terms of social stratification? Understand the difference between ascribed and achieved ...
... What does it mean to say a society is egalitarian, ranked, or stratified? How do functionalist and conflict (or Neo-Marxist) theories explain social stratification? What do power, wealth, and prestige refer to in terms of social stratification? Understand the difference between ascribed and achieved ...
Thirty years of multiculturalism and anthropology
... previous decade we have seen the rise of a form of new-Orientalism. In other words, the public debate was radicalised by highlighting the differences among communities, among cultures. A renovated form of cultural discrimination spread: the one that is based on the contraposition between “Western” a ...
... previous decade we have seen the rise of a form of new-Orientalism. In other words, the public debate was radicalised by highlighting the differences among communities, among cultures. A renovated form of cultural discrimination spread: the one that is based on the contraposition between “Western” a ...
Study guide for test 3- Anth1000c- Fall 2003
... a. that all primates, human and nonhuman, exhibit political behavior. b. how change in politics is related to change in people's values and symbols. c. how political systems maintain social cohesion. d. that politics is the basis for social conflict. e. how male and female roles in politics are comp ...
... a. that all primates, human and nonhuman, exhibit political behavior. b. how change in politics is related to change in people's values and symbols. c. how political systems maintain social cohesion. d. that politics is the basis for social conflict. e. how male and female roles in politics are comp ...
theoretical framework and genesis of cultural materialism
... materialism in order to avoid metaphysical disputations concerning the “question of ontological priority of matter over mind. Contrary to its defamation due to the vulgarized Soviet interpretation, historical materialism has found very important application in Western historians. An example of this ...
... materialism in order to avoid metaphysical disputations concerning the “question of ontological priority of matter over mind. Contrary to its defamation due to the vulgarized Soviet interpretation, historical materialism has found very important application in Western historians. An example of this ...
Sample pages 2 PDF
... inferred to share a common ancestor to the exclusion of a third taxon if they exhibit derived character states that are not also exhibited by the third taxon. In its simplest form, cladistic analysis proceeds via four steps. First, a characterstate data matrix is generated. This shows the states of ...
... inferred to share a common ancestor to the exclusion of a third taxon if they exhibit derived character states that are not also exhibited by the third taxon. In its simplest form, cladistic analysis proceeds via four steps. First, a characterstate data matrix is generated. This shows the states of ...
Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism
... are also entangled in our social environments, in ways of which we are largely unaware. Douglas described this dimension of culture in various ways—as “implicit knowledge,” “cultural bias,” or “thought-styles”—and regarded it as the task of anthropological investigation to show how modern li ...
... are also entangled in our social environments, in ways of which we are largely unaware. Douglas described this dimension of culture in various ways—as “implicit knowledge,” “cultural bias,” or “thought-styles”—and regarded it as the task of anthropological investigation to show how modern li ...
emotion (book review) - UWE Research Repository
... For many this book may provide an antidote to the current trend on well-being and happiness in many disciplines (particularly psychology). However, given that this movement can perhaps be seen as symptomatic of the affectual turn, I was somewhat surprised not to see this included explicitly. There i ...
... For many this book may provide an antidote to the current trend on well-being and happiness in many disciplines (particularly psychology). However, given that this movement can perhaps be seen as symptomatic of the affectual turn, I was somewhat surprised not to see this included explicitly. There i ...
ANTH 310 – Classical Theory of Cultural
... 2) Please switch off your mobile phones before entering the class. 3) Please note that sometimes, due to the given amount of time for each session, I will have to cut short questions or to limit them to the topic under discussion. Such an act under no circumstances reflects on the discussant. 4) Ple ...
... 2) Please switch off your mobile phones before entering the class. 3) Please note that sometimes, due to the given amount of time for each session, I will have to cut short questions or to limit them to the topic under discussion. Such an act under no circumstances reflects on the discussant. 4) Ple ...
Chapter 4 - A Science of Human Nature?
... formulation, however, this realisation did not involve, as it had implicitly done for Sahlins, a general negation of a naturalist approach to our species. However, the main limitation of the theory is that the meme/gene opposition is as caught up in the misleading categorical opposition of ‘nature’ ...
... formulation, however, this realisation did not involve, as it had implicitly done for Sahlins, a general negation of a naturalist approach to our species. However, the main limitation of the theory is that the meme/gene opposition is as caught up in the misleading categorical opposition of ‘nature’ ...
Encounters on Education Encuentros sobre Educación Rencontres sur l’Éducation
... to us now, the effects they still have on us linger on. At work behind the image is a protection mechanism that takes root by excluding the outsider. The offspring of images like those mentioned above are today’s stereotypical views of others, marked “by a exaltation of cultural difference constantl ...
... to us now, the effects they still have on us linger on. At work behind the image is a protection mechanism that takes root by excluding the outsider. The offspring of images like those mentioned above are today’s stereotypical views of others, marked “by a exaltation of cultural difference constantl ...
knowledge, sociology of
... matter extends beyond the problem of relativism and the social location of ideas and ideologies. Prominent among its current themes are the ‘‘local’’ features of knowledges and the study of their functions in everyday life. This redirection of the field from the study of conflicting ideologies to th ...
... matter extends beyond the problem of relativism and the social location of ideas and ideologies. Prominent among its current themes are the ‘‘local’’ features of knowledges and the study of their functions in everyday life. This redirection of the field from the study of conflicting ideologies to th ...
Putting some (artificial) life into models of musical creativity
... creativity has often been a solitary affair, constructing lone monolithic systems that come up with music by themselves. Instead, can we build a more socially-motivated group of interacting artificial agents, who then create music in this social context? The answer is yes—but to do so, we need to mo ...
... creativity has often been a solitary affair, constructing lone monolithic systems that come up with music by themselves. Instead, can we build a more socially-motivated group of interacting artificial agents, who then create music in this social context? The answer is yes—but to do so, we need to mo ...
The Knowledge Society: Innovation, Multimedia and the Postmodern
... domain of science and technology. We find instead that creativity and innovation are now code words for the technological invention and management of change (not terms for aesthetic and political radicalism). Furthermore, in the past decade we have moved from computers to information to knowledge as ...
... domain of science and technology. We find instead that creativity and innovation are now code words for the technological invention and management of change (not terms for aesthetic and political radicalism). Furthermore, in the past decade we have moved from computers to information to knowledge as ...
1 Empowered Individualism in World Culture
... Conceptions of individual empowerment play a central role in research on world culture; indeed, massive changes in contemporary societies are attributed to the changing status of individuals in many lines of thought. At the same time, there is little specific definition in the world cultural researc ...
... Conceptions of individual empowerment play a central role in research on world culture; indeed, massive changes in contemporary societies are attributed to the changing status of individuals in many lines of thought. At the same time, there is little specific definition in the world cultural researc ...
theoryF05 - Le Moyne College
... phenomenon and analyze it according to two theoretical perspectives that you have learned in this course. You may want to consider the theoretical perspective(s) that the author uses, or come up with the two approaches on your own. A schedule of due dates for paper topic, bibliography, outline, and ...
... phenomenon and analyze it according to two theoretical perspectives that you have learned in this course. You may want to consider the theoretical perspective(s) that the author uses, or come up with the two approaches on your own. A schedule of due dates for paper topic, bibliography, outline, and ...