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- Translation
- ion), and give an aesthetic form to the utterance itself (the poetic function). Finally, Jakobson argues t... ss a metalingual function, a capacity to refer to itself as a means to confirm, reinforce, modify, or exte... e quoted phrase. Translation is, Jakobson argues, itself another instance of the metalingual function of c... e. The language of the utterance to be translated itself already contains the capacity to translate itself
- The practice of social theory @6916:2020
- lay in the progressive transformation of society itself. It was the job of social scientists to understan... ndeed, the development of a theory of society was itself often taken as an expression of this modernity. S... was a sign that society was becoming conscious of itself and thus able to transcend its own original condi... l scientist has also become a bearer of modernity itself, a heroic figure who has transcended society and
- Religion and Economy
- ichotomy was taken as fundamental to social order itself, scholars assumed that for most so-called primiti... ty. Anything which had a normative regularity was itself moral in Durkheimian thinking. All collective rep... rom charisma to routine, then effectively society itself has been transformed into something wholly new, m... the implicit secularism of Western social science itself leaves it incapable of understanding global Pente
- Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? @2667
- kheim states that religion is society worshipping itself((While this catchy phrase is often attributed to ... ty say is sacred? ## Why must a society worship itself? ## Durkheim observes that religious forms consi... mere mortals. This is in fact a symbol of society itself, a collective consciousness, imposing itself on the minds of people as the ultimate ground of reality. Th
- Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about @2667
- any kinds of religions, but the value of religion itself is different in every society, because every soci... n mechanical solidarity. ## Society worshipping itself ## Durkheim is best known for his statement that 'Religion is just society worshipping itself'. What does that mean? ## References ## Durk
- Mind
- ople's minds is in the Boasian concept of culture itself. Everyone has a uniquely first-person perspective... son has its own I-centered perspective. A culture itself are is like a mind that lives in the subjective m... in their experiences, rather than the experience itself, which is mostly the same. As anthropologists w
- Semantics and pragmatics
- utterance or other form of communication. Meaning itself seems like a fundamental aspect of communication,... n that will come, and one could say that the rain itself causes clouds. Another example is a foot print, w... hat this is not an adequate definition of meaning itself, and for this reason, the field of semantics has
- Community
- What is acquired, yet also universal is the rule itself. Many animals live in groups. Humans obey rules w... s of their society when they got married. Kinship itself is a social institution that derives from the soc... ed down over time. But a lineage is not the group itself. People are members of the same lineage because t
- Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
- culture is highly **ethnocentric**. It considers itself to be a standard against which other cultures can... er it has gone anthropology has struggled to shed itself of its own ethnocentric roots and develop a new a
- Why is religion interesting and problematic? @2667
- to be part of their brand, and the brand of Japan itself, much like the concepts of //sushi//, //geisha// ... rently total commitment... Is mockery of religion itself a religious practice? Can people join a religion
- Reciprocity
- fact it reflects an essential quality of society itself, which is that society is a totality, a whole whi... ift function to sustain the basis for social life itself. All societies impose the obligations of the gift
- Alliance and descent
- d on different understandings of social structure itself. Fortes argued that descent groups served to crea... and jural order of rights and obligations, which itself was a reflection of a universal principle of kins
- "No man dies without a reason" @1002
- to maintain social structure, this school called itself **structural-functionalism**. ## Quiz: Where do... hcraft is a collective representation of deviance itself, the "standardized nightmare" of the society (Wil
- Is African Christianity just 'African culture'? @2667
- hcraft is a collective representation of deviance itself, the "standardized nightmare" of the society (Wil
- Putting it all together @1002:2018
- nds of situations, and find new ways to reproduce itself and continue to pursue its goals. * **Dichotomo
