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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415737609
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (144 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Sociological Theory (Routledge Revivals) : Pretence and Possibility
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1973, this book is concerned with the question of whether Sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science. Keith Dixon argues that the pretence to the theoretical is a hindrance to the development of the field of Sociology, which devalues significant empirical work by giving status to research findings only in so far as they relate to often arbitrary theoretical concerns. Dixon addresses the historical dimension in the explanation of human nature and rational action. This reissue will be of particular value to students and academics with an interest in the empirical and
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Ordinary language and theoretical explanations; Ordinary language explanations; The construction of a data-language: behaviourism; The logic of successful theory; 2 Matching the physical science paradigm; Cause and generality; The failure of sociological theory: a priori or contingent?; 3 Causal explanation and rational action; The argument that causal accounts of human behaviour are ruled out a priori; Rational action
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 An alternative conceptualisation: voluntaristic action theoryThe action frame of reference; The definition of action; 5 Bringing history back in : laws and the explanation of human action; Uniqueness and contingency; Concluding remarks; Notes; Index
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415737449
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (147 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version The Sociology of Belief (Routledge Revivals) : Fallacy and Foundation
    DDC: 303.3/72
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1980, this book presents a study of knowledge and the patterns of social and scientific thought. Keith Dixon argues that traditional and contemporary formulations of the sociology of knowledge involve a series of fallacies, and the claim to reduce knowledge to ideology devalues the role of reasoned inquiry. Chapters discuss such areas as the theories of Marx and Mannheim, the sociology of science and of religious belief. With a detailed conclusion analysing the foundations and limits of the sociology of knowledge, this reissue will provide an interesting and useful analysis 
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Introduction; 1 Reductionism and dual residentialism: Marx and Mannheim; 1 Marxism: 'science' or critique?; 2 Dispensing with the dialectic; 3 Mannheim: dual residentialism compounded; 2 The reaction to reductionism and the fallacies of negative re-endorsement and cognitive relativism; 1 The reaction to reductionism; 2 The fallacy of negative re-endorsement; 3 Cultural and cognitive relativism and the concept of rationality; 3 The sociology of science
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Cognitive relativism and the sociology of science2 The curious case of Immanuel Velikovsky; 3 Knowledge and the empirical basis of science; 4 Ethics and religion: claims to autonomy; 1 Moral discourse and moral practice; 2 Religious belief - the crucial case; 5 Conclusion: the foundation and limits of the sociology of knowledge; Notes; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415314541
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (241 p)
    Edition: 3rd ed
    Series Statement: Routledge Classics
    Parallel Title: Print version Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmology
    DDC: 302.2/22
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    Abstract: One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, Mary Douglas saw instead that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding. Expressed with clarity and dynamism, the passionate analysis which follows remains one of the most insightful and rewarding studies of human behaviour ever written
    Description / Table of Contents: Mary Douglas Natural Symbols Explorations in cosmology; Copyright; Contents; List of Diagrams; Acknowledgements; Introduction to 1996 Edition; Introduction; 1 Away from ritual; 2 To inner experience; 3 The Bog Irish; 4 Grid and group; 5 The two bodies; 6 Test cases; 7 The problem of evil; 8 Impersonal rules; 9 Control of symbols; 10 Out of the cave; Bibliography; Index
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415737609
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (144 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Sociological Theory: Pretence and Possibility
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1973, this book is concerned with the question of whether Sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science. Keith Dixon argues that the pretence to the theoretical is a hindrance to the development of the field of Sociology, which devalues significant empirical work by giving status to research findings only in so far as they relate to often arbitrary theoretical concerns. Dixon addresses the historical dimension in the explanation of human nature and rational action. This reissue will be of particular value to students and academics with an interest in the empirical and
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Ordinary language and theoretical explanations; Ordinary language explanations; The construction of a data-language: behaviourism; The logic of successful theory; 2 Matching the physical science paradigm; Cause and generality; The failure of sociological theory: a priori or contingent?; 3 Causal explanation and rational action; The argument that causal accounts of human behaviour are ruled out a priori; Rational action
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 An alternative conceptualisation: voluntaristic action theoryThe action frame of reference; The definition of action; 5 Bringing history back in : laws and the explanation of human action; Uniqueness and contingency; Concluding remarks; Notes; Index
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415737449
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (147 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version The Sociology of Belief: Fallacy and Foundation
    DDC: 303.3/72
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1980, this book presents a study of knowledge and the patterns of social and scientific thought. Keith Dixon argues that traditional and contemporary formulations of the sociology of knowledge involve a series of fallacies, and the claim to reduce knowledge to ideology devalues the role of reasoned inquiry. Chapters discuss such areas as the theories of Marx and Mannheim, the sociology of science, and religious belief. With a detailed conclusion analysing the foundations and limits of the sociology of knowledge, this reissue will provide an interesting and useful analysis to
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Introduction; 1 Reductionism and dual residentialism: Marx and Mannheim; 1 Marxism: 'science' or critique?; 2 Dispensing with the dialectic; 3 Mannheim: dual residentialism compounded; 2 The reaction to reductionism and the fallacies of negative re-endorsement and cognitive relativism; 1 The reaction to reductionism; 2 The fallacy of negative re-endorsement; 3 Cultural and cognitive relativism and the concept of rationality; 3 The sociology of science
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Cognitive relativism and the sociology of science2 The curious case of Immanuel Velikovsky; 3 Knowledge and the empirical basis of science; 4 Ethics and religion: claims to autonomy; 1 Moral discourse and moral practice; 2 Religious belief - the crucial case; 5 Conclusion: the foundation and limits of the sociology of knowledge; Notes; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415263948
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (415 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: The international behavioural and social sciences library. Anthropology 4
    Parallel Title: Print version Man in Africa
    DDC: 301.29/6
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Man in Africa; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword; Part I: General; Jacques Maquet The Cultural Units of Africa: A Classificatory Problem; Part II: Political Economy; R. E. Bradbury Patrimonialism and Gerontocracy in Benin Political Culture; Robin Horton From Fishing Village to City-state: A Social History of New Calabar; I. M. Lewis From Nomadism to Cultivation: The Expansion of Political Solidarity in Southern Somalia; Peter Morton-Williams The Influence of Habitat and Trade on the Polities of Oyo and Ashanti
    Description / Table of Contents: J. A. Barnes The Politics of LawPart III: Problems in Kinship; Mary Douglas Is Matriliny Doomed in Africa?; Rosemary Harris Unilineal Fact or Fiction: A Further Contribution; M. G. Smith Differentiation and the Segmentary Principle in Two Societies; Phyllis M. Kaberry Witchcraft of the Sun: Incest in Nso; Part IV: Expression of Values; Clara Odugbesan Femininity in Yoruba Religious Art; Robert Brain Friends and Twins in Bangwa; Victor W. Turner Symbolization and Patterning in the Circumcision Rites of Two Bantu-speaking Societies; Jan Vansina The Bushong Poison Ordeal
    Description / Table of Contents: John Middleton Oracles and Divination among the LugbaraMichael Onwuejeogwu The Cult of the Bori Spirits among the Hausa; Farnham Rehfisch Death, Dreams, and the Ancestors in Mambila Culture; Part V: Enigmas of the Past; Clifford J. Jolly and Peter J. Ucko The Riddle of the Sphinx-monkey; Don R. Brothwell Africa's Contribution to Palaeopathology: From the Past to the Future; Bibliography of Professor Daryll Forde; Author Index; Subject Index
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    ISBN: 9780415488501
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (305 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Rules and Meanings
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Knowledge, Sociology of ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernism conducive to her opposition to reputedly modernizing trends in contemporary society. The collection contains works by Wittgenstein, Schutz, Husserl, Hertz and other continentals. The underlying themes of the anthology are the construction of meaning, the force of hidden background assumptions, tacit conventions and the power of spatial organization to reinforce words. The work serves to complement the philosophers' work on everyday langua
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; MARY DOUGLAS; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part One Tacit Conventions; 1 L. Wittgenstein (1921) Understanding Depends on Tacit Conventions; 2 A. Schutz (1953 and 1954) The Frame of Unquestioned Constructs; 3 H. Garfinkel (1967) Background Expectancies; 4 E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1937) For Example, Witchcraft; Part Two The Logical Basis of Constructed Reality; 5 L. Wittgenstein (1921) The World is Constructed on a Logical Scaffolding; 6 E. Durkheim and M. Mauss (1903) The Social Genesis of Logical Operations
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1949) 'Where the Women are, the Cattle are not'8 J. C. Faris (1968) 'Occasions' and' Non-Occasions'; 9 E. Husserl (1929 and 1907) The Essence of Redness; 10 G. Lienhardt (1961) Configurations of Colour Structure the Diverse Field of Experience; Part Three Orientations in Time and Space; 11 E. Husserl (1905) Lived Experiences of Time; 12 E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1940) Time is not a Continuum; 13 J. A. Roth (1963) Benchmarks; 14 H. Garfinkel (1967) Time Structures the Biography and Prospects of a Situation; 15 J. Cage (1968) Musical Time and Other Time
    Description / Table of Contents: 16 M. L. J. Abercrombie (1971) Face to Face17 L. Marshall (1960) Each Side of the Fire; 18 P. Bourdieu (1971) The Berber House; 19 P. Gidal (1971) Eight Hours or Three Minutes; Part Four Physical Nature Assigned to Classes and Held to Them by Rules; 20 Mr Justice Ormrod (1971) Sex; 21 R. Hertz (1909) The Hands; 22 F. Steiner (1956) The Head; 23 Mrs Humphry (1897) The Laugh; 24 S. J. Tambiah (1969) Classification of Animals in Thailand; 25 R. Bulmer (1967) Why the Cassowary is not a Bird; Part Five The limits of Knowledge; 26 E. Husserl (1907) The Possibility of Cognition
    Description / Table of Contents: 27 L. Wittgenstein (1921) The Limits of my Language mean the Limits of my World28 B. Bernstein (1971) The Limits of my Language are Social; Part Six Interpenetration of Meanings; 29 D. R. Venables and R. E. Clifford (1957) Academic Dress; 30 T. Wolfe (1968) Shiny Black Shoes; 31 L. Wittgenstein (1938) Wittgenstein's Tailor; 32 Anon (1872) Etiquette: Dinner Party; 33 L. G. Allen (1915) Etiquette: Table; 34 A. Fortescue and J. O'Connell (1943) Etiquette: Altar; Part Seven Provinces of Meaning; 35 A. Schutz (1945) Multiple Realities; 36 E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1937) Social Principles of Selection
    Description / Table of Contents: 37 C. W. M. Hart and A. R. Pilling (1960) Rules Ensure Correspondence between Provinces: The Judicial Contest38 H. Hesse (1943) Insulation Makes the Finite Province Trivial: The Glass Bead Game; 39 Saint Francis (1959) Techniques for Breaking the Claims of Socially Selected Meanings: Brother Masseo's Path-Finding; 40 J. Cage (1968) Indeterminacy; Part Eight Formal Correspondences; 41 L. Wittgenstein (1921) Pictorial Form; 42 S. M. Salim (1962) Disorder Depicts Dishonour; 43 A. Segal (1971) Breach of One Rule Breaches the System of Rules; 44 R. Vailland (1957) The Racketeer in Life and in Play
    Description / Table of Contents: 45 M. A. K. Halliday (1969) The Syntax Enunciates the Theme
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    ISBN: 9780415291149
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (119 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Risk and Acceptability
    DDC: 304
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    Abstract: First published in 1985, Mary Douglas intended Risk and Acceptability as a review of the existing literature on the state of risk theory. Unsatisfied with the current studies of risk, which she found to be flawed by individualistic and psychologistic biases, she instead uses the book to argue risk analysis from an anthropological perspective. Douglas raises questions about rational choice, the provision of public good and the autonomy of the individual
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; RiskAcceptability According to the Social Sciences; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Moral Issues in Risk Acceptability; 2. The Emergence of a New Subdiscipline; 3. Perception of Risk; 4. Choice and Risk; 5. Natural Risks; 6. Credibility; 7. Risk-Seeking and Safety First; 8. Institutional Constraints; 9. Risks Encoded; Bibliography; Acknowledgments
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    ISBN: 9780415291132
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (608 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Constructive Drinking
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cross-cultural studies ; Drinking customs -- Cross-cultural studies ; Alcoholism -- Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1987,〈I〉 Constructive Drinking〈/I〉 studies the functions drinking plays within society. A series of original case studies deal with a variety of exotic - not just alcohol - from a variety of cultural and geographical contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors to this volume; I Introductory; 1 Mary Douglas. A distinctive anthropological perspective; 2 Dwight Heath. A decade of development in the anthropological study of alcohol use, 1970-1980; II Drinks construct the world as it is; 3 Joseph Gusfield. Passage to play: rituals of drinking time in American society; 4 Gerald Mars. Longshore drinking, economic security and union politics in Newfoundland; 5 Mary Anna Thornton. Sekt versus Schnapps in an Austrian village; 6 Ndolamb Ngokwey. Varieties of palm wine among the Lele of the Kasai
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Anne Tyler Calabresi. Vin Santo and wine in a Tuscan farmhouse8 Farnham Rehfisch. Competitive beer drinking among the Mambila.; III Drinks construct an ideal world; 9 Paul Antze. Symbolic action in Alcoholics Anonymous; 10 Elizabeth Bott. The Kava ceremonial as a dream structure; 11 Haim Hazan. Holding time still with cups of tea; 12 Lisa Anne Gurr. Maigret's Paris conserved and distilled; IV Alcohol entrenches the alternative economy; 13 Thomas Crump. The alternative economy of alcohol in the Chiapas highlands
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Hillel Levine. Alcohol monopoly to protect the noncommercial sector of eighteenth-century Poland15 Gerald Mars and Yochanan Altman. Alternative mechanism of distribution in a Soviet economy; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415667081
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (319 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 306.6
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; In the Active Voice; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Passive voice theories in religious sociology; 2 Goods as a system of communication; 3 Money; The contempt of ritual; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy; Primitive rationing; 4 Food as a system of communication; Food studied as a system of communication; Food as an art form; The Food Art Exhibition; Food is not feed; 5 Good taste: review of Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction; 6 Population control in primitive groups
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Lele economy compared with the Bushong: a study of economic backwardness8 The exclusion of economics; 9 Cultural bias; 10 Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945; 11 Judgments on James Frazer; 12 The debate on the Holy: review of The Making of Late Antiquity; Name index; Subject index
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    ISBN: 9780415667081
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (319 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 306.6
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between individuals and their cultural environment, whether in economics, history or literary criticism.This collection is assembled with the guiding principle that all the essays touch upon the borderland between economic values and personal judgements of quality. Several essays illustrate the theme from the place
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; In the Active Voice; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Passive voice theories in religious sociology; 2 Goods as a system of communication; 3 Money; The contempt of ritual; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy; Primitive rationing; 4 Food as a system of communication; Food studied as a system of communication; Food as an art form; The Food Art Exhibition; Food is not feed; 5 Good taste: review of Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction; 6 Population control in primitive groups
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Lele economy compared with the Bushong: a study of economic backwardness8 The exclusion of economics; 9 Cultural bias; 10 Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945; 11 Judgments on James Frazer; 12 The debate on the Holy: review of The Making of Late Antiquity; Name index; Subject index;
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