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- The charisma of the coronavirus
- what is best for themselves as individuals. Weber says that the most significant kind of rationality is ... always part of people’s thinking, but Weber also says that there are times and situations in which peop... and its theology. It means a gift from God. Weber says that many people can claim authority and get peop... lues they represent. Charismatic authority, Weber says, drives social change. This is why Weber argues t
- Observations about Piot's ethnography of Kabre @1002:2018:tutorial
- ral examples I thought were interesting: * Piot says that in Kabre society, gifts obligate and indebt ... wn relationships with his neighbors in Kabre, and says that giving and receiving gifts was a way to comm
- Learning from Lisa @the_quest
- episode also ends on an ambiguous note when Lisa says "The system works!" For all its jokes, the story ... er work and destroy this illusion altogether. She says, "The myth of Jebediah Springfield has value too"
- Melford E. Spiro and the strange and the familiar in ethnography
- eir own perspective on themselves. Instead, Spiro says we must move to a third position outside both, an... retains the principle of cultural relativism. He says, > The operation of making the familiar strange
- The social world is a stage, and our actions are symbols @1001:2020
- else. * Wearing a Socialist Alternative t-shirt says that you are member of Socialist Alternative. * Wearing secondhand clothing from Vinnies says "I am a hipster" even if the wearer does not mean
- Why would someone join a religious commune? @2667
- ps out individual patterns of action. * Durkheim says that patterns of action are social facts. That is why they matter. * Weber says that social patterns and institutions form becaus
- Submitting documents with style @the_quest
- eat, presentable, readable way. An author's style says a lot to a reader about whether the author should... ticking the checkbox on the submission form which says that you have not plagiarized your work. Also, p
- The obligations of the gift @1002:2019
- ter. Why? ## Gifts create obligations Mauss says: Because you have to. Gifts come with obligatio... ## Total services What, then, is society? Mauss says that the essence of society is a "system of total
- Translation
- an ever be said to be absolutely necessary. Quine says that one could eventually hope to reliably conver... unicative action. When Quine’s radical translator says, for instance, * When they say “Gavagai!,” they
- Assessing Mauss’s influence: An exercise in research skill @1002:2020
- scholarship can only contribute to a debate if it says something new, whether that be a radical new theo... copy, or paraphrase word-for-word what the author says. Read what they have written, reflect on it, set
- Marcel Mauss and the gift @1002:2018
- ter. Why? ## Gifts create obligations ## Mauss says: Because you have to. Gifts come with obligatio... Total services ## What, then, is society? Mauss says that the essence of society is a "system of total
- ANTH 2654: Forms of families @2654
- University Blackboard Learn server. So when Ryan says to look for something "on Blackboard," or "on the
- Emile Durkheim
- come a tradition, like a town that has a law that says ducks can't wear pants. Durkheim argued that we c
- Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? @2667
- equate society and the sacred in this way, and he says in the conclusion, "If religion has given birth t
