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- # Society A key concept scholars use to understand human life is that of **society**. It is a very broad, fuzzy concept in some ways... ocial** terms, they do have a specific sense of **society**. It is good to ask yourself, "OK, what does this scholar think a society is? What is their theory of society, and how does
- the_practice_of_social_theory @6916:2020
- ny, this lay in the progressive transformation of society itself. It was the job of social scientists to un... lain why this transformation happens. Theories of society developed, then, in the context of a faith in modernity. Indeed, the development of a theory of society was itself often taken as an expression of this m... dernity. Scientific social theory was a sign that society was becoming conscious of itself and thus able to
- 1.2 @1002:2024
- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== The reality of society ====== ===== The reality of society ===== ==== Week 1: Why do we need anthropology? / Economic rationality and the reality of society ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 1002: Anthropology in th... **societies are based on fictions**. Members of a society live as if their shared fiction is true. This cl
- 1 @2700:2021
- to contribute to a general, universal concept of society, but others question whether there is such a thing as society, and if it has to have a universal definition. ... ences are an effort to move away from asking what society //should be// to explaining what society //is//.<HTML></p></HTML><HTML></li></HTML> <HTML><li></HTML><HTML
- the_practice_of_social_theory @6916:2018
- ny, this lay in the progressive transformation of society itself. It was the job of social scientists to un... lain why this transformation happens. Theories of society developed, then, in the context of a faith in modernity. Indeed, the development of a theory of society was itself often taken as an expression of this m... dernity. Scientific social theory was a sign that society was becoming conscious of itself and thus able to
- 1 @2700:2022
- to contribute to a general, universal concept of society, but others question whether there is such a thing as society, and if it has to have a universal definition. ... ences are an effort to move away from asking what society //should be// to explaining what society //is//.<HTML></p></HTML><HTML></li></HTML> <HTML><li></HTML><HTML
- 7.1 @1002:2018
- Brenner, Suzanne. 1996. “Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and ‘the Veil.’” American ... l and urban societies? ## What is a contemporary society? ## This class is about the conditions of life and society in the contemporary world. The contemporary wor... their interactions with other cultures, and every society is a product of their history. * Complex. Many di
- 3 @2667
- us Life* (1915), Durkheim states that religion is society worshipping itself((While this catchy phrase is o... and at several points in the book he does equate society and the sacred in this way, and he says in the co... igion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion" (1915: 419). In other words, it is not the emp
- religion_and_economy
- eligion// (Wiley Blackwell, 2018). ## The sacred society and the sacred self ## The interaction of religi... as social domains. In the Durkheimian tradition, society is a thing sui generis and a total system, a whol... of their consciousness to the collective mind of society. Thus, for Durkheim, the study of society and the study of religion go hand in hand as part of an examinat
- 1 @2700:2025
- ugh to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. (Rousseau [1755] 1964, 141) > [Ironically, ... ndividuals] was, or must have been, the origin of society and laws, which gave new fetters to the weak and ... “science” is a break with normative inquiry into society and politics ===== Anthropology asks empirical q... l social science to replace normative theories of society ==== These are Durkheim's principles: * Soci
- 2 @2700:2022
- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== Society as mind ====== ===== Society as mind ===== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 2700: Key debates in anthropology\\ ryan.s... ks (1996) ===== Social facts and the essence of society ===== Durkheim says that society is rules, but not rules in the sense of explicit dos and don’ts in a rul
- 4 @2700:2022
- ee** that societies are not static, and that each society is a product of a history of contact. * They ... tudy history to understand the present of any one society. * But they also **disagree** on other major is... are part of a stratified global system, and each society contains within it separate, unequal strata *... s the standard for everyone else, both within one society and globally. * Other people’s perspectives a
- 4 @2700:2021
- ee** that societies are not static, and that each society is a product of a history of contact. * They ... tudy history to understand the present of any one society. * But they also **disagree** on other major is... are part of a stratified global system, and each society contains within it separate, unequal strata *... s the standard for everyone else, both within one society and globally. * Other people’s perspectives a
- 13.1 @1002:2024
- as and the development of anthropology ===== * Society is a thing //sui generis//. * Society is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. * A society is like a machine, or like the body of an organis... y called his “structural functionalist” theory of society. * What is most interesting about societies is
- 8.1 @1002:2024
- For Durkheim, if societies are wholes then each society is //sui generis// (Durkheim [1912] 2008, 27). * A society creates itself. * A society creates its own reality which its members accept unconsciously. All societies have one thing in common. A society must impose one idea on its members: What is sacr