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Author(s): Ernest Gellner
ISBN(s): 9780415302968, 041530296X
Edition: New Ed
File Details: PDF, 1.45 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 041530296X 

ISBN 13: 978-0415302968

Author: Ernest Gellner
This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch’s idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1 Explanation in history;

Chapter 2 Concepts and society;

Chapter 3 Winch’s idea of a social science; 

Chapter 4 The new idealism—cause and meaning in the social sciences; 

Chapter 5 The entry of the philosophers; 

Chapter 6 Time and theory in social anthropology; 

Chapter 7 Sociology and social anthropology; 

Chapter 8 On Malinowski; 

Chapter 9 On Evans-Pritchard; 

Chapter 10 On structuralism; 

Chapter 11 Ideal language and kinship structure; 

Chapter 12 The concept of kinship; 

Chapter 13 Nature and society in social anthropology; 

Chapter 14 The alchemists of sociology, Williamblake; 

Chapter 15 The sociology of faith; 

Chapter 16 Sources Index 

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