Mary Douglas : : Understanding Social Thought and Conflict / / Perri 6, Paul Richards.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: 6, Perri,; Richards, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1 Social Organization in Microcosm: Anomalies and Ritual Concentrate Conflict --; 2 Comparing on a Grand Scale: Elementary Forms Do the Organizing --; 3 Building Fundamental Explanations: Rituals Do the Institutionalizing, and Institutions Make Change --; 4 The Analytic Method is Also Ritual Peace Making: Thinking in Circles Helps to Defuse Conflict --; 5 Douglas’ Contribution to Understanding Social Thought and Conflict --; Coda --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785334238; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785334238?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Perri 6, Paul Richards.

Mary Douglas’s innovative explanations for styles of human thought and for the dynamics of institutional change have furnished a distinctive and powerful theory of how conflicts are managed, yet her work remains astonishingly poorly appreciated in social science disciplines. This volume introduces Douglas’s theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the future of the social sciences. Mary Douglas: Understanding Human Thought and Conflict shows how Douglas laid out the agenda for revitalizing social science by reworking Durkheim’s legacy for today, and reviews the growing body of research across the social sciences which has used, tested or developed her approach.