Chapt002 - In the Field
... An etic (science-oriented) approach emphasizes the categories, interpretations, and features that the anthropologist considers important. ...
... An etic (science-oriented) approach emphasizes the categories, interpretations, and features that the anthropologist considers important. ...
Pierre Bourdieu as a Post-cultural Theorist
... work addressed, but that they overreach in suggesting that whatever they are talking about was Bourdieu’s ‘concept of culture’. One thing to notice is that none of these commentators can actually quote Bourdieu as providing his working definition of what culture is. This paper addresses this puzzle. ...
... work addressed, but that they overreach in suggesting that whatever they are talking about was Bourdieu’s ‘concept of culture’. One thing to notice is that none of these commentators can actually quote Bourdieu as providing his working definition of what culture is. This paper addresses this puzzle. ...
Riffs, Repetition, and Theories of Globalization
... criticism with a perspective more cognizant of African diasporic aesthetics, but to look also at the way repetitive musical devices contribute to an understanding of global musical circulation.1I am interested in the way riffs, repetition, and their composite grooves circulate within and between gen ...
... criticism with a perspective more cognizant of African diasporic aesthetics, but to look also at the way repetitive musical devices contribute to an understanding of global musical circulation.1I am interested in the way riffs, repetition, and their composite grooves circulate within and between gen ...
Why the history of archaeology is essential to theoretical archaeology
... presents and pasts? Notwithstanding a wide variety of answers to these fundamental questions, we have also long been aware of the methodological assumption that the most effective way of making the prehistoric past intelligible, of saturating its phenomena with meaning and value, has been to write t ...
... presents and pasts? Notwithstanding a wide variety of answers to these fundamental questions, we have also long been aware of the methodological assumption that the most effective way of making the prehistoric past intelligible, of saturating its phenomena with meaning and value, has been to write t ...
GENDER, CULTURE CHANGE, AND FERTILITY DECLINE IN HONDURAS: AN
... A project like this goes beyond the effort of one person. There are many people who have helped me, in one way or another, over the years. It is my pleasure to thank all those who have contributed to the successful completion of this dissertation. First, I would like to thank Martin F. Murphy. When ...
... A project like this goes beyond the effort of one person. There are many people who have helped me, in one way or another, over the years. It is my pleasure to thank all those who have contributed to the successful completion of this dissertation. First, I would like to thank Martin F. Murphy. When ...
61 RAGE AGAINST REASON: ADDRESSING CRITICAL CRITICS
... to commit those acts (Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990). Criminality is a continuously distributed trait which is a combination of other continuously distributed traits such as negative emotionality, impulsiveness, egoism, low empathy, and many others traits that make a person less than desirable as a fr ...
... to commit those acts (Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990). Criminality is a continuously distributed trait which is a combination of other continuously distributed traits such as negative emotionality, impulsiveness, egoism, low empathy, and many others traits that make a person less than desirable as a fr ...
Heirlooms, Nikes and Bribes: Towards a Sociology of Things
... between persons has been through the opposition of the gift and the commodity. Anthropological approaches to ways of exchange have often rested upon the distinction between societies which are characterised by the ‘embedded nature of economic acts, as against societies where the economy is relativel ...
... between persons has been through the opposition of the gift and the commodity. Anthropological approaches to ways of exchange have often rested upon the distinction between societies which are characterised by the ‘embedded nature of economic acts, as against societies where the economy is relativel ...
2003 Stocking`s Historiography of Influence
... before he went to the University of California; but, more significantly, that not everything ‘German’ in US anthropology is Boasian or the result of Boas’s insemination of ideas on American soil. Indeed, if we take seriously Stock in his festschrift article on Merriam (1938: 766, 772), it may be tha ...
... before he went to the University of California; but, more significantly, that not everything ‘German’ in US anthropology is Boasian or the result of Boas’s insemination of ideas on American soil. Indeed, if we take seriously Stock in his festschrift article on Merriam (1938: 766, 772), it may be tha ...
Terms
... Why has the city been undertheorized in anthropology? Urban analysis has been left to a group of scholars who draw from architecture, history, geography, planning, sociology, and economics (33, 43, 79, 80, 210, 216, 222, 224, 254), bringing their unique interdisciplinary skills to the study of the c ...
... Why has the city been undertheorized in anthropology? Urban analysis has been left to a group of scholars who draw from architecture, history, geography, planning, sociology, and economics (33, 43, 79, 80, 210, 216, 222, 224, 254), bringing their unique interdisciplinary skills to the study of the c ...
Preparation for Retirement, Financial Literacy and Cognitive
... Although the model we develop in this section follows Kezdi and Willis by using the Merton model as the basis for a microeconomic model of household asset demand, we suppress considerations of variation in probabilistic beliefs about general stock market returns in order to focus on investment in th ...
... Although the model we develop in this section follows Kezdi and Willis by using the Merton model as the basis for a microeconomic model of household asset demand, we suppress considerations of variation in probabilistic beliefs about general stock market returns in order to focus on investment in th ...
Clinical Paradigm Clashes: Ethnocentric and Political Barriers
... knowledge typically contain tacit cultural commitments (e.g., to individualism, to rationalism, to what is locally considered ‘‘normal’’ sexuality, to tolerance of only culturally familiar intoxicants and medicines, to the primacy of the male sex, to particular cultural views of childrearing or matu ...
... knowledge typically contain tacit cultural commitments (e.g., to individualism, to rationalism, to what is locally considered ‘‘normal’’ sexuality, to tolerance of only culturally familiar intoxicants and medicines, to the primacy of the male sex, to particular cultural views of childrearing or matu ...
this article - International Journal of Mass Emergencies
... exercise of power and the relative marginalization of certain groups. Intermediate or ‘dynamic’ level pressures (including epidemic disease, urbanization, conflict, foreign debt, certain economic policies and environmental degradation) translate, so to speak, the root causes into particular forms of ...
... exercise of power and the relative marginalization of certain groups. Intermediate or ‘dynamic’ level pressures (including epidemic disease, urbanization, conflict, foreign debt, certain economic policies and environmental degradation) translate, so to speak, the root causes into particular forms of ...
1 The Future in Max Weber`s Methodological Writings Barbara Adam
... today’s motive force and inexorable guiding vision. When Weber focuses attention on the subject matter of social sciences, we are left in no doubt that what makes social action meaningful, interesting and significant, and what makes social life worth living are our visions and dreams, our beliefs an ...
... today’s motive force and inexorable guiding vision. When Weber focuses attention on the subject matter of social sciences, we are left in no doubt that what makes social action meaningful, interesting and significant, and what makes social life worth living are our visions and dreams, our beliefs an ...
Morten Bøås
... latter interpretation, the question of whether the dominant power is a state, a group of states or some other combination of public and private power is left as an open question. What is of larger importance is that whatever power that holds the hegemonic position it is sustained not merely by forc ...
... latter interpretation, the question of whether the dominant power is a state, a group of states or some other combination of public and private power is left as an open question. What is of larger importance is that whatever power that holds the hegemonic position it is sustained not merely by forc ...
john mingers - Kent Academic Repository
... their parts or components. Rather, the parts are related together in such a way that the whole has behaviours or, more generally, properties that are distinct from, and irreducible to, the properties of the parts. This is often expressed in the phrase, possibly due to Aristotle, that the whole is mo ...
... their parts or components. Rather, the parts are related together in such a way that the whole has behaviours or, more generally, properties that are distinct from, and irreducible to, the properties of the parts. This is often expressed in the phrase, possibly due to Aristotle, that the whole is mo ...
IS MATHEMATICS DISCOVERED OR INVENTED? Paul Ernest
... of being selected or chosen. I wish to argue that mathematical knowledge is based on contingency, due to its historical development and the inevitable impact of external forces on the resourcing and direction of mathematics, but is also based on the deliberate choices and endeavours of mathematicia ...
... of being selected or chosen. I wish to argue that mathematical knowledge is based on contingency, due to its historical development and the inevitable impact of external forces on the resourcing and direction of mathematics, but is also based on the deliberate choices and endeavours of mathematicia ...
Sc h o o l o f Ph ilo so... St u d ie s
... Description: This module addresses the central notion that a national cinema can be more fruitfully understood in terms of the conflicts and discrepancies within a given culture to which its constituent films give a voice. These conflicts point to the fact that film does not simply represent the hom ...
... Description: This module addresses the central notion that a national cinema can be more fruitfully understood in terms of the conflicts and discrepancies within a given culture to which its constituent films give a voice. These conflicts point to the fact that film does not simply represent the hom ...
astrologer gordon psychic rochelle
... © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2004, Victor Segesvary 1968-2004 ...
... © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2004, Victor Segesvary 1968-2004 ...
How Popper`s `Three Worlds Theory` Resembles Moscovici`s
... to a mistaken belief in ‘absolute truth’. Of course, a ‘perfect’ understanding, for example between speakers of different languages or members of different cultures (or two people in general), is unattainable, but that does not mean that understanding is impossible and that a discussion between part ...
... to a mistaken belief in ‘absolute truth’. Of course, a ‘perfect’ understanding, for example between speakers of different languages or members of different cultures (or two people in general), is unattainable, but that does not mean that understanding is impossible and that a discussion between part ...
Ethics—Walk the Talk
... Ethics in Corporations – A Historical View Companies have long fought the battle of corporate corruption. Because corporations are run by people and no human being is morally perfect, ethical issues are bound to arise. How these issues are handled is the best indicator of a corporation’s ethical c ...
... Ethics in Corporations – A Historical View Companies have long fought the battle of corporate corruption. Because corporations are run by people and no human being is morally perfect, ethical issues are bound to arise. How these issues are handled is the best indicator of a corporation’s ethical c ...
Preliminary Program 2015 (updated 2/5/15)
... VINDROLA-PADROS, Cecilia (U Coll London) “Uncomfortable Findings”: Negotiating the Purpose and Uses of Research as an Embedded Healthcare Researcher in the UK GOTTLIEB, Samantha (CSU-East Bay) Startup Culture and Anthropological Endeavors: Must This Be a Tale of Incommensurability? BAIM-LANCE, Abiga ...
... VINDROLA-PADROS, Cecilia (U Coll London) “Uncomfortable Findings”: Negotiating the Purpose and Uses of Research as an Embedded Healthcare Researcher in the UK GOTTLIEB, Samantha (CSU-East Bay) Startup Culture and Anthropological Endeavors: Must This Be a Tale of Incommensurability? BAIM-LANCE, Abiga ...
Critical Discourse Analysis
... sentence examples e.g. the word ‘This’ can be used at the start of a discussion to foreground the topic under discussion and identify it as important to the speaker, whereas the word ‘That’ could be used to background or marginalise a topic and place it is a subordinate position, from the speaker’s ...
... sentence examples e.g. the word ‘This’ can be used at the start of a discussion to foreground the topic under discussion and identify it as important to the speaker, whereas the word ‘That’ could be used to background or marginalise a topic and place it is a subordinate position, from the speaker’s ...
Practice Theory - WesScholar
... or infused within them by animating beliefs, desires, and intentions. Indeed, the stronger suggestion is that rules, norms and concepts get their meaning, and their normative authority and force, from their embodiment in publicly accessible activity. Taylor’s account is characteristic of this move: ...
... or infused within them by animating beliefs, desires, and intentions. Indeed, the stronger suggestion is that rules, norms and concepts get their meaning, and their normative authority and force, from their embodiment in publicly accessible activity. Taylor’s account is characteristic of this move: ...
Problems of Historical Causation in Emotions Research
... For theoretical and practical reasons, then, some new thinking about how to explain emotional change seems imperative. Three instances of emotionological change have by now been explored fairly extensively: the late 17th-18th centuries, when new kinds of impulse restraint (the ‘civilizing process’) ...
... For theoretical and practical reasons, then, some new thinking about how to explain emotional change seems imperative. Three instances of emotionological change have by now been explored fairly extensively: the late 17th-18th centuries, when new kinds of impulse restraint (the ‘civilizing process’) ...
Ideology and Utopia in Mannheim
... and Utopia” (Kettler and Meja 3). It has also been observed that “It is safe to say when sociologists today think of the sociology of knowledge, pro or con, they usually do so in terms of Mannheim’s formulation of it” (Berger & Luckmann 9). It is therefore impossible to critically study and evaluate ...
... and Utopia” (Kettler and Meja 3). It has also been observed that “It is safe to say when sociologists today think of the sociology of knowledge, pro or con, they usually do so in terms of Mannheim’s formulation of it” (Berger & Luckmann 9). It is therefore impossible to critically study and evaluate ...