ISBN:
9780080183138
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (359 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Pergamon frontiers of anthropology series 4
Series Statement:
Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies
Parallel Title:
Print version The Sorcerer's Apprentice : An Anthropology of Public Policy
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthropology of Public Policy sees the community in a global and national view, raises a statement saying that society itself is policy making, and asks what societies can achieve if they did things differently. The book is divided into five parts. Part I discusses the challenge of policy and explains how anthropology is a social science. Part II covers the analysis and policy of the village universe, the urban contribution, and elements of the nation state, international connections, and the """"supra-nation"""". Part III includes the innovation and genesis of
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthropology of Public Policy; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; The Author; Acknowledgments; Perspectives; Part I: Policy and Anthropology; Chapter 1. The Challenge of Policy; Chapter 2. Anthropology as Social Science; Part II: A Structure of World Society; Prologue to Part II; Chapter 3. Analysis of the Village Universe; Chapter 4. Policy in the Village Universe; Chapter 5. The Village Extended; Chapter 6. The Urban Contribution; Chapter 7. Elements of the Nation-state; Chapter 8. International Connections; Chapter 9. Supra-nation
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III: Movement in the Social SystemPrologue to Part III; Chapter 10. Innovation and the Genesis of Ideas; Chapter 11. Resources and Their Management; Chapter 12. Of Change, Conflict, and Resistance; Part IV: Styles of Action; Prologue to Part IV; Chapter 13. The Process of Technical Assistance; Chapter 14. Working Close to the Community; Chapter 15. Of Politics and Conflict; Chapter 16. Politician as Sorcerer; Social Scientist as Apprentice; Chapter 17. On the Mastery of Judgment; Chapter 18. The Social Sciences Organized; Part V: Values and Options
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 19. Values, Choice, and the Problem of ScienceIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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