Thinking about Society: Theory and Practice

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Springer Science & Business Media, 1986 - Broj stranica: 519
I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics, where Bronislaw Malinowski was the object of ancestor worship. Jarvie's doctorate was in philosophy, however, under the guidance of Karl Popper and John Watkins. He changed his department not as a defector but as a rebel, attempting to exorcize the ancestral spirit. He criticized the method of participant obser vation not as useless but as not comprehensive: it is neither necessary nor sufficient for the making of certain contributions to anthropology; rather, it all depends on the problem-situation. And so Jarvie remained an anthro pologist at heart, who, in addition to some studies in rather conventional anthropological or sociological molds, also studied the tribe of social scien tists, but also critically examining their problems - especially their overall, rather philosophical problems, but not always so: a few of the studies in cluded in this volume exemplify his work on specific issues, whether of technology, or architecture, or nationalism in the academy, or moviemaking, or even movies exhibiting excessive sex and violence. These studies attract his attention both on account of their own merit and on account of their need for new and powerful research tools, such as those which he has forged in his own intellectual workshop over the last two decades.
 

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THE NOTION OF A SOCIAL SCIENCE
3
CHAPTER 2 SOCIAL PERCEPTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
17
RATIONALITY AND RELATIVISM
50
POPPER ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
70
THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOL
95
CHAPTER 7 ON THEORIES OF FIELDWORK AND
107
CHAPTER 8 LIMITS TO FUNCTIONALISM AND ALTERNA
127
ON THE OBJECTIVITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
144
FREEMAN ON MEAD
257
THE OBJECTIVITY OF CRITICISM OF
265
THE RATIONALITY OF CREATIVITY
282
TECHNOLOGY AND THE STRUCTURE
302
THE SOCIAL CHARACTER OF TECHNOLOG
314
IS TECHNOLOGY UNNATURAL?
321
UTOPIA AND THE ARCHITECT
328
NATIONALISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
352

CHAPTER 10 THE PROBLEM OF ETHICAL INTEGRITY
152
ANTHROPOLOGY AS SCIENCE AND THE
162
EPISTLE TO THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS
183
ON THE LIMITS OF SYMBOLIC INTERPRETA
197
THE PROBLEM OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC REAL
212
ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND THE IRRATIONAL
233
EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOCIAL CAREER
368
METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PROB
390
SOURCES
476
INDEXES
487
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