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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 @6916:2018
- # The practice of social theory This is a difficult time to study questions of culture, development, and ... g 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_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
- 7.2 @1002:2022
- = ==== Week 7: Care as capital after the Fordist social contract ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 1002: Anthropol... n reading:** Mazelis (2015); Nelson (2000) ===== Social capital in The Flats ===== Being a neighbor invo... d play this game on this field, people accumulate social capital. ===== Becoming kin in The Flats ===== ... p relationships are sites for the accumulation of social capital. ===== Social capital in a migrant commu
- 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
- 6.2 @1002:2024
- = ==== Week 6: Care as capital after the Fordist social contract ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 1002: Anthropol... p relationships are sites for the accumulation of social capital. * People in The Flats have the ethos ... in Chicago in the 1900s (Addams 1902, 19). ===== Social capital in a migrant community in Boston ===== M... s: People who pursue opportunities to acquire new social roles, and hence new skills associated with each
- 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
- the_pleasures_of_theory_-_a_rationale_for_the_unit_design @6916:2018
- f development practice: (1) it takes place within social systems; (2) those social systems are internally contested and diverse; (3) it attempts to change social systems; (4) it is an intercultural project. Thus... ges. This class is a very general introduction to social theory, but we do try to come back to these four
- 1 @2700:2022
- tes in anthropology\\ ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au\\ Social Sciences Building 410 (A02)\\ Week of February 21... - Anthropologists have always borrowed from other social sciences. - Anthropology is just plain big, bec... HTML><li></HTML><HTML><p></HTML>Anthropology is a social science, so we should think about where science c... s.<HTML></p></HTML> <HTML><p></HTML>Likewise, the social sciences are an effort to move away from asking w
- emile_durkheim
- m 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
- 1 @2700:2021
- tes in anthropology\\ ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au\\ Social Sciences Building 410 (A02)\\ Week of March 01, 2... - Anthropologists have always borrowed from other social sciences. - Anthropology is just plain big, bec... HTML><li></HTML><HTML><p></HTML>Anthropology is a social science, so we should think about where science c... s.<HTML></p></HTML> <HTML><p></HTML>Likewise, the social sciences are an effort to move away from asking w
- about_this_seminar @6916:2024
- s the many different ways people make society and social conditions thinkable. This class was developed to... serve as a required unit on the basic concepts of social sciences for students of development. Over time, it became an all-purpose introduction to social theory. When the development studies degree was brought into the Masters of Social Justice as a concentration, it had to change agai
- plan @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) | |\
- 7.1 @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
- themes @6916:2018
- is a totality. Individuals just work here. * Social facts, what are they and why have they been important in social theory? * division of labor and solidarity * the sacred, or morality * Rationality in social action - Types of social action - The meaning of social action as a perspective * Value, Marx