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- Religion and Economy
- anyone wishing to understand either. In classical social theories, religion and economy appear as distinct domains of social behavior and organization. Yet although these the... theoretical conception of religion and economy as social domains. In the Durkheimian tradition, society i... e sacred, is central to Durkheim's concept of the social body. Durkheim argues that all societies, large a
- The practice of social theory @6916:2020
- ====== The practice of social theory ====== [RS: This may need some updating. Thoughts?] This is a diffi... ng called into question. Generally speaking, the social sciences developed in the West in a period in whi... ansformation of society itself. It was the job of social scientists to understand and explain why this tra... en as an expression of this modernity. Scientific social theory was a sign that society was becoming consc
- The charisma of the coronavirus
- ==== The relevance of anthropology: Covid-19 is a social disease ===== Yet, anthropology has much that it... asic level, though, the coronavirus pandemic is a social phenomenon. The virus spreads through social spaces, and quickly dies outside of a host. It spreads from person to person, and thus is conveyed through social relationships. If you needed to trace someone’s c
- Society
- answer a question about patterns of behavior in **social** terms, they do have a specific sense of **socie... onceptualize society, there is a key way in which social scientists' use of the concept differs from other... make the whole machine work. Put another way, **a social system is also like a living organism.** It can a... ky part...// One of the specialized elements of a social system is its "structure." Social machines do nee
- Emile Durkheim
- # Emile Durkheim is one of the most significant social theorists of the twentieth century, credited with... which, as he famously said, one should "consider social facts as things" (Durkheim 1982 [1895]: 60). That... e part of objective reality. As objective facts, "social things" (Lemert 2008) should not be treated as if... ing external to any one individual consciousness. Social facts impose themselves on individuals of a socie
- City air makes you free @1002:2018
- cieties end up being the same. * Not all kinds of social change are progress. By the end of this week, I ... with Emile Durkheim, he is credited with some of social science's main ideas. Weber's approach to social forms starts from the view that there are different typ... the way that anthropologists do. His views about social change are ethnocentric. He assumed that all soci
- Summary of topics and readings @6916:2020
- 5 | Introduction to the seminar: The relevance of social theory | | |\\ | 2 | Mar 3 | The material conditi... (2009) |\\ | 3 | Mar 10 | The rationality of the social actor | Weber ([1904] 1946) | Brenner (1996); Ger... nd Winant (2014) |\\ | 6 | Mar 31 | Exchange as a social, not economic, fact | Mauss ([1925] 1990) | Piot (1999) |\\ | 7 | Apr 7 | Sex and gender as social constructs and social process | Rubin (1975) | |\
- Why would someone join a religious commune? @2667
- ewater-stays-dirty-in-our-minds. ## Types of social action ## * Traditional: Like a habit or an unq... eral is a very important and very special type of social action. ## Quiz: What types of social action best describe these activities? ## * Brushing your teeth ... lk to each other about the best Weberian types of social action to classify these activities. Do you agree
- Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? @2667
- ence of belonging to a group, and being part of a social whole.)). To understand what this means, we need to understand Durkheim's argument that the social fact of the category of the sacred is functionall... some other, more current, science fiction). * **Social facts** are collective representations (or 'const... ousness, imposes on its members' consciousnesses. Social facts appear to people as being external and coer
- Max Weber
- tem, which made it possible for people to examine social patterns and behaviors and find new kinds of explanations. Unlike these other key social theorists, Weber's theory of society is based on ... individual and collective actions of its members. Social action has meaning and purpose. It accomplishes s... valuable for society and its members in some way. Social forms, groups, identities and institutions are, i
- "No man dies without a reason" @1002
- ogy in the world Module 4, Week 1, Lectures 1 Social Sciences Building (A02), Room 410 ryan.schram@s... l in helping anthropologists think about magic in social terms. ## Evans-Pritchard's distinction between ... superstitions; they are functional components of social systems Evans-Pritchard's work had an influence ... ted to look for how things functioned to maintain social structure, this school called itself **structural
- Community
- thout looking beyond the individual to the larger social environment. Each individual is not only a member... that community as a system. Human beings have a social nature. In the same way, humans have an innate capacity to acquire specific patterns from their social environment, and in doing so, they can participat... often happens to be one's mother (//mater//) in a social sense. But the fact of being a //genetrix// has n
- Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about @2667
- have any questions for me? ## Society, religion, social theory, social studies of religion ## This class focuses on the relationships between religion and socie... practices and institutions in societies. * The **social study of religion** is different than the history... ligious literature or texts, and theology. * The social study of religion seeks to examine the significan
- Putting it all together @1002:2018
- ram October 29, 2018 ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au Social Sciences Building 410 (A02) Available at http://... ideas and values which people acquire from their social environment. It shapes how they see, think, and a... ves in a cultural context, we also recognize that social rules, social institutions, and cultural values can act on the world: * **[[:society|Society]] and soci
- Respect for the owners of the death @1002
- logy in the world Module 4, Week 1, Lecture 2 Social Sciences Building (A02), Room 410 ryan.schram@s... king to the dead ## The function of witchcraft Social anthropologists loved talking about witchcraft an... seemed a perfect test case for their ideas about social **function**: * Witchcraft and sorcery function ... iety's egalitarian ideology. People bewitch their social equals out of jealousy that they might be gaining
- “God’s taboo”: The heteroglossia of evangelism in Methodist missionary narratives from British New Guinea, circa 1890 @talks
- The payback beat: Ethnographic citizenship and the public kinship of indigenous subjects in postcolonial Papua New Guinea @talks
- Gender is a cultural construct and a social process—Cases of “woman-marriage” in Africa and matrimonial alliance (part 1) @1001:2020
- Gender is a cultural construct and a social process—Cases of “woman-marriage” in Africa and matrimonial alliance (part 2) @1001:2020
