Mary Douglas : : Understanding Social Thought and Conflict /

Mary Douglas : : Understanding Social Thought and Conflict / / 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 D...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
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6, Perri,
Richards, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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