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- translation
- s and necessary to communication, and one of many different kinds of metalinguistic capacities that all langu... llenge would also do the same but in a completely different way. Each translation would be adequate, but inco... on, a given utterance accomplishes as many as six different functions which are part of the process of commun... l frame, linguistic diversity is imagined as many different natural species, perfectly isolated, and each uni
- the_social_life_of_language @3621:2024
- identify a theme that you see running through the different topics we have discussed in this class, and to ma... t that this general idea can be seen in multiple, different ethnographic cases. This essay is not a “literat... n in society. Every case we saw in this class is different in lots of different ways. Anthropologists always assume that people are different. So the contrasts among t
- 4 @2700:2021
- he world of humanity is diverse and includes many different ways of life. It’s also clearly very unequal. You can look at this two different ways: * The world is a mosaic of different cultures. * Societies of the world are part of a stratified ... erspectives and values are marginalized; they are different but they exist in the context of the dominant cul
- 7.1 @1002:2018
- ty is a product of their history. * Complex. Many different kinds of logic coexist within every society, like... ies are changing all the time, but change goes in different directions, and history is not linear or progress... social forms starts from the view that there are different types of society, and one can compare them to und... ernity ## For Weber "traditional" societies were different from "modern" societies. Traditional societies a
- 4 @2700:2022
- he world of humanity is diverse and includes many different ways of life. It’s also clearly very unequal. You can look at this two different ways: * The world is a mosaic of different cultures. * Societies of the world are part of a stratified ... erspectives and values are marginalized; they are different but they exist in the context of the dominant cul
- difference
- # Difference People are different from each other. For some scholars and thinkers, these differences don't h... fundamental similarity. * Sure, everyone has a different hair color; the important thing is that everyone ... little above or below that. * Sure, everyone has different ideas about personal space. But 12 inches feels r... e are lots of ways in which individual people are different from each other, many of these differences are co
- 5.1 @1002:2022
- community, people organize kinship relationships differently, and each society assigns different degrees of importance to these ties. Kinship is universal, but takes ... e universal, but whether they count as kinship is different everywhere. ==== A useful distinction ==== * ... at family comes in many forms, and that people in different cultures have different ideas of families, is not
- religion_and_economy
- ganization. Yet although these theories attribute different kinds of logic to them, throughout the world, one... f Max Weber, who approaches social analysis quite differently, places these two domains in a more complex rel... ual's perspective, and that social forms embodied different kinds of meaning for individuals who participated... ciology, religion and economy play important, yet different, roles in setting the terms of social inquiry. Ec
- mills-methods
- cieties of the world, whether large or small, are different in many ways and similar in many ways. Like seve... everal cases to understand why some societies are different than others, and why some societies are similar. ... nterested in explaining. These two cases are very different in several ways. You could consider all the speci... that are very similar. We assume that people are different, and that every society and situation in which pe
- sydney @talks
- two legs, two arms, and so on. ## Why are people different? ## Around the world, people can be quite different. People within one society can be pretty different from each other too. What are some of the ways in which ... y, people were very interested in why humans were different, and they generally believed that most of the dif
- 1.1.1 @1001:2020
- your university? * Your path to university is different from everyone else’s. It’s what you can add to th... olved this question ===== This question has many different possible answers, and anthropologists continue to... In this class, I want everyone to listen to what different anthropologists say on this question, and I want ... r is divided into modules, each one focusing on a different question, and culminating in an assignment. ====
- emile_durkheim
- e. Institutions can have a function that is quite different from its stated purpose. ### Sanctions and soci... ral issues. And yet we treat them as if they were different than 'crime'. You might say, well, maybe in the ... g disputes between people each function to create different kinds of social solidarity. Criminal acts are p... t everyone in society has a stake in the outcome. Different societies treat the same act with different kinds
- 12 @1001:2021
- ategories ([[:emic and etic|emic categories]]) on different ways of speaking: some words are obscene, some to... o “learn how to ask” questions and participate in different kinds of conversation (Briggs 1984). ===== How ... es one play in these kinds of talk are completely different from the role one plays answering questions in a ... se interviews as methods, but anthropologists are different because their position is always dual. * An eth
- lewis_henry_morgan
- er scholars, though they had fully taken up the a different version of anthropology grounded in the concepts ... of social organization, and creating more finely differentiated classes of kinship and membership in the soc... the period of civilization, societies exhibited a differentiation between the institutions of the state and s... change, and contemporary tribal societies, though different, are not living fossils or contemporary ancestors
- assessments @1002:2018
- by doing a comparative analysis of at least three different ethnographic descriptions, including the suppleme... tal reading, revealing this common pattern across different contexts. The essay asks to you find evidence fro... The final examination will consist of a series of different kinds of questions, some of which ask you to demo... class, and others which ask you to synthesize the different ideas and arguments we have read in terms of unif