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    Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) : Max Weber (2014)
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    ISBN: 1306708249 , 9780415738934 , 9781306708241
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (262 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) : Max Weber
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    Abstract: 〈P〉The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As Weber was less able to avoid ambiguity, the author examines the weaknesses and efforts at 'paradigm revision'. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to Volume Three; Chapter One: Weber's Early Writings: Tentative Explorations beyond Idealism and Materialism; 1. The Historical and Ideological Background for Weber's Synthesis; 2. The Intellectual Background for Weber's Synthesis; 3. The Theoretical Achievement: Multidimensional Elements in Weber's Early Writings; 4. Conclusion: Theoretical Underdevelopment and Sociological Ambivalence; Chapter Two: The Later Writings and Weber's Multidimensional Theory of Society
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Synthetic Approach to Action and Order2. Multidimensional Theory and Comparative Method; 3. The Normative Definition of Rationality: Religion in the Comparative Studies; 4. Beyond Durkheim's Idealist Reduction: The Normative and Instrumental Determination of Religious Evolution; 5. Beyond Marx's Materialist Reduction: The Multidimensional Analysis of Social Class; 6. Normative Order and Empirical Conflict: The Multidimensional Analysis of Urban Revolution; 7. Conclusion: On the Generalized and Analytic Interpretation of Weber's Achievement
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Three: The Retreat from Multidimensionality (1): Presuppositional Dichotomization in the "Religious" Writings1. The Negative Case of The Religion of China; 2. Ancient Judaism as the Multidimensional Alternative; 3. Conclusion; Chapter Four: The Retreat from Multidimensionality (2): Instrumental Reduction in the "Political" Writings; 1. The Evolution from "Legitimation" to ""Domination" in the Formal Writings; 2. The Elaboration of Instrumental Domination in the Substantive Political History; 2.1. Charisma as a Framework for Domination
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2. The Instrumental Struggle for Traditional Domination and Its Transition to a Rational-Legal Form3. Conclusion: "Knowing Better" and the Imperatives of Theoretical Logic; Chapter Five: Legal-Rational Domination and the Utilitarian Structure of Modern Life; 1. Bureaucracy: The Impersonal Form of Hierarchical Control; 2. Democracy: The Inclusion of the Personal Struggle for Power; 3. Law: The External Reference of Formalized Norms; 4. Stratification: The Instrumental Competition for Generalized Means
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. A Liberal in Despair: The Ideological Moment in Weber's Instrumental Reduction of ModernityChapter Six: Weber Interpretation and Weberian Sociology: "Paradigm Revision" and Presuppositional Strain; Notes; Works of Weber; Author-Citation Index; Subject Index
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    The Antinomies of Classical Thought (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415724227
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (592 p)
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    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
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    Abstract: This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx's very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim's case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to Volume Two; Chapter One: Prolegomena. General Theoretical Argument as Interpretation: The Critical Role of "Readings"; Part One Collective Order and the Ambiguity about Action; Chapter Two: Marx's First Phase (1): From Moral Criticism to External Necessity; 1. Reduction and Conflation in Marxist Interpretation; 2. "Early Writings"": From Normative Tension to Utilitarian Calculation; 2.1. Moral Criticism and the Appeal to Universal Norms: The Starting Point
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2. Natural Necessity and the Appeal to Self Interest: The Initial Transition2.3. Alienation and the Submission to Material Order: The Ambivalent Acceptance of Political Economy in the 1844 Manuscripts; 2.3.1. The Challenge of the "Theses on Feuerbach": Philosophical Multidimensionality Reaffirmed as Species-Being; 2.3.2. The Tentative Solution: "Natural Man" and the Instrumental Logic of Political Economy; 2.3.3. The Hanging Thread: The Subjective Foundations of Alienation and the Problem of the Transition to Communism
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Three: Marx's First Phase (2): The Attack on Moral Criticism and the Origins of a Historical Materialism1. The Years of Transition; 1.1. The Attack on Cultural "Generality" and the End of Philosophy; 1.2. Transforming the Status of "Alienation": The Attack on Subjectivity in the Transition to Communism; 1.3. The Residual Category of Later Marxism: Inexplicable Normative Action; 2. Maturity: Rational Action and Coercive Order in The Communist Manifesto; 3. Conclusion: Interpretive Errors and Marx's True Contribution
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Four: Durkheim's First Phase (1): The Ambiguous Transition from Voluntary Morality to Morality as External Constraint1. Reduction and Conflation in Durkheimian Interpretation; 2. Durkheim's Early Writings: The Unsuccessful Search for Voluntary Morality; 2.1. Social Crisis and the Search for a Responsive Collectivism; 2.2. The Critique of Classical Economy: Morality as the Collectivist Alternative; 2.3. Durkheim's Contradictory Approaches to Moral Order: Theoretical Ambivalence and the Movement toward an Antivoluntaristic Determinism
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.1. The Problem of Action: Durkheim's Ambiguous Critique of Egoistic Rationality2.3.2. The Problem of Order: The Tortuous Path toward Collective Control; 2.4. Involuntary Morality and Durkheim's First Sociology; 2.5. Conclusion: Mechanical Order and Durkheim's Relation to the Instrumentalist Tradition; Chapter Five: Durkheim's First Phase (2): The Division of Labor in Society as the Attempt to Reconcile Instrumental Order with Freedom; 1. "Material Individualism" as the Antidote to Mechanical Order: The Division of Labor in the Early Sociological Essays
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Empirical Discovery and Theoretical Ambivalence in The Division of Labor in Society
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    Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415738927
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (257 p)
    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Table of Contents; Chapter One: Theoretical Logic in Scientific Thought; 1. Introduction: Scientific Thought as a Two-Directional Continuum; 2. The Positivist Persuasion in Social Science: The Reduction of Theory to Fact; 3. The Failure of the "Human Studies" Alternative to Social Scientific Positivism; 4. Toward an Alternative Conception of Science; 4.1. Early Foundations; 4.2. Contemporary Elaborations
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. The Postpositivist Persuasion: Rehabilitation of the Theoretical6. Conclusion: The Need for a General Theoretical Logic in Sociology; Chapter Two: Theoretical Logic in Sociological Thought (1): The Failure of Contemporary Debate to Achieve Generality; 1. The Reduction of General Logic to Political Commitment: The Debate over Ideology; 2. The Reduction of General Logic to Methodological Choice: The Debate over Positivism; 3. The Reduction of General Logic to Empirical Proposition: The Debate over Conflict; 4. The Reduction of General Logic to Model Selection: The Debate over Functionalism
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Three: Theoretical Logic in Sociological Thought (2): Toward the Restoration of Generality1. The Epistemological Reference for Generalized Sociological Argument; 2. The Generalized Problem of Action; 2.1. The Presupposition of Rationality: ""Instrumental" Action and the Reduction of Ends to Means; 2.2. The Presupposition of Nonrationality: "Normative"" Action and the Relative Autonomy of Ends; 2.3. Other Approaches to Rationality and the Problem of Theoretical Reduction; 2.3.1. Rationality as Means/End Calculation; 2.3.2. Rationality as the Achievement of Particular Ends
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. The Generalized Problem of Order3.1. The Conflationary Dimensions of Current Approaches to Order: Empirical, Ideological, and Presuppositional Reduction; 3.2. The Individualist Presupposition in Its Instrumental and Normative Forms: Social Order as Residual Category; 3.3. The Collectivist Presupposition in Its Rationalist Form: Coercive Order and the Elimination of Freedom; 3.4. The Collectivist Presupposition in Its Normative Form; 3.4.1. Social Constraint and the Preservation of Voluntarism; 3.4.2. Voluntarism, Constraint, and the Reification of the Free Will Concept
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4.3. Voluntary Order and the Problem of Sociological IdealismChapter Four: Theoretical Logic as Objective Argument; 1. Objective Evaluation through Universal Reference: The "Structural" Status of Action and Order; 2. Objective Evaluation through Synthetic Standards: The Scope and Mutual Autonomy of Action and Order; 3. Objective Evaluation through Explicit Hierarchical Judgment: The Need for a Multidimensional Approach to Action and Order; Notes; Author-Citation Index; Subject Index
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    Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) : Talcott Parsons (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415738965
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (559 p)
    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) : Talcott Parsons
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    Abstract: 〈P〉In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface: Theoretical Thought and Its Vicissitudes: The Achievements and Limitations of Classical Sociology; Chapter One: Theoretical Controversy and the Problematics of Parsonian Interpretation; Chapter Two: The Early Period: Interpretation and the Presuppositional Movement toward Multidimensionality; 1. Percept and Precept: Postpositivist Aspects of Parsons' Meta-Methodology; 2. Precepts as Presuppositions: The Synthetic Intention; 2.1. The Multidimensional Approach to Action
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2. The Multidimensional Approach to Collective Order3. Later Refinements of Multidimensional Order; 3.1. Generalization-Specification; 3.2. The Cybernetic Continuum; 3.3. Beyond the Classics; 4. Symbolic Order and Internalization: Later Refinements of the Voluntarism Problem; 5. Conclusion: ""Systematic Theory"" and Its Ecumenical Ambition; Chapter Three: The Middle Period: Specifying the Multidimensional Argument; 1. ""Specification"" and the Stages of Theoretical Development; 2. The Empirical Essays and the Pattern-Variable Critique of Instrumental Rationality
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Empirical Specification of Multidimensionality in the Later-Middle Work3.1. Personality, Culture, Society; 3.2. Allocation and Integration; 3.3. The Basic Structural Formations of Societies; 3.4. The Pattern Variables in Systemic Context; 3.5. Conclusion: The Social System and Its Critics; 4. The Change Theory and the Vicissitudes of Western Development; 4.1. The General Multidimensional Theory; 4.2. Rationalization, Anomie, and Revolution; 4.3. The Deviance Paradigm: Reformulating Strain and Its Control; 4.4. Conclusion: The Change Theory and Its Critics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Four: The Later Period (1): The Interchange Model and Parsons' Final Approach to Multidimensional Theory1. Interchange and Its Presuppositional Logic; 1.1. The Problem of Interpretation; 1.2. The Limitations of Parsons' Middle-Period Theorizing; 1.3. The Focus of Interchange: Refining the Multidimensional Model; 2. Economics as Interchange: Elaborating the Critique of Classical Economics; 3. Politics as Interchange; 3.1. Refining the Multidimensional Conceptualization; 3.2. Politics and the Combinatorial Process; 3.3. Beyond the Classics: Parsons' Durkheim-Weber Synthesis
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Integration as Interchange: ""Solidarity"" beyond Idealism4.1. Integration Defined: Solidarity and the Logic of Interchange; 4.2. The Nature of Solidary Interchange; 4.3. The Historical Production of Citizenship Solidarity; 4.4. The Interchange Theory of Integration and the Limitations of Parsons' Classical Predecessors; 5. Interchange and the Respecification of Parsons' Value Theory; 5.1. Value Interchange and the Differentiation of Scope; 5.2. ""Rationality"" and the University: Interchange, Value Specification, and Conflict; 5.3. The Value Theory and Its Critics
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.4. Multidimensional Values and the Dialogue with Durkheim and Weber
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    Man in Africa (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780415263948
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    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
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    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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    Rules and Meanings (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780415488501
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    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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    In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals) (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780415667081
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (319 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 306.6
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    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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    Constructive Drinking (2013)
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    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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    Risk and Acceptability (2013)
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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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    Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmology (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780415314541
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (241 p)
    Edition: 3rd ed
    Series Statement: Routledge Classics
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    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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    In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals) (2011)
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    DDC: 306.6
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    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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    Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmology (2004)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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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: First published in 1970, this classic text represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society
    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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    Risk and Blame : Essays in Cultural Theory (2002)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415119993
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (336 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Risk and Blame : Essays in Cultural Theory
    DDC: 302.12
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    Abstract: Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society.In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops a programme for studying risk and blame that follows from ideas originally proposed in Purity and Danger. She suggests how political and cultural bias can be incorporated into the study of risk percep
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; RISK AND BLAME; RISK AND JUSTICE; RISK AND DANGER; MUFFLED EARS; WITCHCRAFT AND LEPROSY: TWO STRATEGIES FOR REJECTION; THE SELF AS RISK-TAKER: A CULTURAL THEORY OF CONTAGION IN RELATION TO AIDS; THE NORMATIVE DEBATE AND THE ORIGINS OF CULTURE; WANTS; NO FREE GIFTS: INTRODUCTION TO MAUSS'S ESSAY ON THE GIFT; INSTITUTIONS OF THE THIRD KIND: BRITISH AND SWEDISH LABOUR MARKETS COMPARED; AUTONOMY AND OPPORTUNISM; THOUGHT STYLE EXEMPLIFIED: THE IDEA OF THE SELF; CREDIBILITY; A CREDIBLE BIOSPHERE; THE DEBATE ON WOMEN PRIESTS
    Description / Table of Contents: THE HOTEL KWILU: A MODEL OF MODELSName index; Subject index
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    Natural Symbols (2002)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415138253
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (222 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Natural Symbols
    DDC: 302.2/22
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This classic text represents a work of anthropology in the widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society. With a new, and highly topical introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of diagrams; Acknowledgements; Introduction to 1996 edition; Introduction; Away from ritual; To inner experience; The Bog Irish; Grid and group; The two bodies; Test cases; The problem of evil; Impersonal rules; Control of symbols; Out of the cave; Bibliography; Index
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