The Retreat of the Social : : The Rise and Rise of Reductionism /

The Retreat of the Social : : The Rise and Rise of Reductionism / / ed. by Bruce Kapferer.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Baca, George,
Bastin, Rohan,
Ernst, Thomas,
Friedman, Jonathan,
Hart, Keith,
Iteanu, André,
Just, Roger,
Kapferer, Bruce,
Siikala, Jukka,
Taylor, Christopher C.,
HerausgeberIn:
Kapferer, Bruce,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (132 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Social Construction of Reductionist Thought and Practice
  • The Relocation of the Social and the Retrenchment of the Elites
  • Legends of Fordism: Between Myth, History, and Foregone Conclusions
  • More Power to You, or Should It Be Less?
  • Methodological Individualism and Sociological Reductionism
  • Reductionism and Misunderstanding Human Sociality
  • Theories and Ideologies in Anthropology
  • Death of the Indian Social
  • When Nothing Stands Outside the Self
  • From Bell Curve to Power Law: Distributional Models between National and World Society
  • Notes on Contributors

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