The retreat of the social: the rise and rise of reductionism
In: Critical Interventions : a forum for social analysis 6
In: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis
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In: Critical Interventions : a forum for social analysis 6
In: Critical interventions 6
In: a forum for social analysis
Introduction : the social construction of reductionist thought and practice /Brace Kapferer -- The relocation of the social and the retrenchment of the elites /Jonathan Friedman -- Legends of Fordism : between myth, history, and foregone conclusions /George Baca -- More power to you, or should it be less? /Christopher C. Taylor -- Methodological individualism and sociological reductionism /Roger Just -- Reductionism and misunderstanding human sociality /Thomas Ernst -- Theories and ideologies in anthropology /Jukka Siikala -- Death of the Indian social /Rohan Bastin -- When nothing stands outside the self /Andre Iteanu -- From bell curve to power law : distributional models between national and world society /Keith Hart.
In: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis 6
The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value. The essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social
In: Critical Interventions : a forum for social analysis 6
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