Cultural Theory
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sociocultural Viability: An Introduction -- Our Point of Departure: The Grid-Group Typology -- The Patterns Behind the Dimensions -- How Free to Choose What? -- Notes -- PART ONE THE THEORY -- Introduction to Part One: Against Dualism -- Notes -- 1 The Social Construction of Nature -- Five Myths of Nature -- The Hermit's Myth -- The Social Construction of Human Nature -- Notes -- 2 Making Ends Meet -- Reconciling Needs and Resources -- Limits to Reconciling Needs and Resources -- Five Strategies Mapped onto Five Ways of Life -- Only Five Management Strategies? -- Notes -- 3 Preferences -- Accounting for Tastes -- Deriving Preferences from Ways of Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Ringing the Changes -- Thinking About Surprise -- A Typology of Surprises -- Twelve Kinds of Change -- Loosening the Constraints -- Change Is Essential to Stability -- Notes -- 5 Instability of the Parts, Coherence of the Whole -- Traveling Hopefully, Never Arriving -- The Making and Breaking of Alliances -- Fatalism's Functions -- Why Pluralism Is Essential -- Cultural Theory Restated -- Notes -- PART TWO THE MASTERS -- Introduction to Part Two: The Indispensability of Functional Explanation -- Comparing Typologies of Viable Ways of Life -- Cultural-Functional Explanation -- Notes -- 6 Montesquieu, Comte, and Spencer -- Montesquieu -- Auguste Comte -- Herbert Spencer -- The Biological Parallel -- Cycling In and Out in Highland Burma -- Notes -- 7 Durkheim -- Young Emile and Master Durkheim -- The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life -- The Division of Labor in Society -- Suicide -- The Master, Not the Whippersnapper -- Notes -- 8 Marx -- Marx's Historical Materialism -- Mystification in Marxian and Cultural Theory
