Closed Systems And Open Minds
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Closed Systems And Open Minds
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Author : Thomas Szasz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12
Closed Systems And Open Minds written by Thomas Szasz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with Social Science categories.
Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom. When a social anthropologist's research leads him into any field, which belongs to other disciplines, what line should he adopt? What use may he make of the results that other scholars have already achieved? Must he knowingly make naive assumptions concerning events, which they have regarded as complex? In each of the fascinating essays which in turn form the core of this book - V. W. Turner's on symbols in Ndembu ritual; F.G. Bailey's on disputes which occurred in two Orissa villages; A. L. Epstein's on urban communities in Africa; T. Lupton's and S. Cunnison's on the relationship between behaviour in three Manchester workshops and certain events which happened outside; and W. Watson's on social mobility and social class in a coalmining Scottish burgh-several social anthropologists attempt to answer these questions by discussing the problems of method that they have encountered in their own recent research; and in the searching discussion which sum up the results. To analyze one first has to circumscribe one's field, and then simplify within the area of circumscription. Both circumscription and simplification may involve procedures of absorbing, abridging, and making naive assumptions. The contributors draw attention to the attempt to distinguish between psychical facts (emotions, thoughts, etc.) and psychological, which we believe should apply only to statements within the science of psychology, and not to be used by the former. They similarly distinguish between social facts and sociological or social-anthropological statements. ""Psychological"" and ""sociological"" are so well established in common parlance as adjectives to categorize facts that attempts to specialize them as hopeless.
Closed Systems And Open Minds The Limits Of Na Vety In Social Anthropology Edited By Max Gluckman By Various Authors
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Author : Herman Max GLUCKMAN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Closed Systems And Open Minds The Limits Of Na Vety In Social Anthropology Edited By Max Gluckman By Various Authors written by Herman Max GLUCKMAN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
Closed Systems And Open Minds
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Author : Max Gluckman
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh ; London : Oliver & Boyd
Release Date : 1964
Closed Systems And Open Minds written by Max Gluckman and has been published by Edinburgh ; London : Oliver & Boyd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Anthropology categories.
Open Minds
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Author : Wolfgang Prinz
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012-03-16
Open Minds written by Wolfgang Prinz and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-16 with Psychology categories.
A novel proposal that the cognitive architecture for volition and cognition arises from particular kinds of social interaction and communication. In Open Minds, Wolfgang Prinz offers the novel claim that agency and intentionality are first perceived and understood in others, and that it is only through practices and discourses of social mirroring that individuals come to apply these features to themselves and to shape their architectures for volition and cognition accordingly. Developing a (social science) constructive approach within a (cognitive science) representational framework, Prinz argues that the architectures for agency (volition) and intentionality (cognition) arise from particular kinds of social interaction and communication. Rather than working as closed, individual systems, our minds operate in ways that are fundamentally open to other minds. Prinz describes mirror systems and mirror games, particular kinds of representational mechanisms and social games that provide tools for aligning closed individual minds with other minds. He maps the formation of an architecture for volition, addressing issues of agency and intention-based top-down control, then outlines the ways the same basic ideas can be applied to an architecture for cognition, helping to solve basic issues of subjectivity and intentionality. Addressing the reality and efficacy of such social artifacts as autonomy and free will, Prinz contends that our beliefs about minds are not just beliefs about their workings but powerful tools for making them work as we believe. It is through our beliefs that our minds work in a particular way that we actually make them work in that way.
Integrity Courage And Soul
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Author : Alvin W. Holst
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2012-08
Integrity Courage And Soul written by Alvin W. Holst and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08 with Education categories.
Aristotle is quoted as saying "A man could not claim to know a subject unless he was capable of transmitting his knowledge to others, and he regarded teaching as the proper manifestation of knowledge." A person is a reflection of his or her learning experiences with others since birth. Many feel trapped in a world where they have no control but feel others control them. Feeling trapped and not in control is at the base of all negative life experiences that is continually reinforced in every new generation, often in a more severe form. Recognition and acceptance of this negative acculturation is the first step of rebuilding one's life to live positively and successfully in a negative world. A life where others apply negative control tactics in rearing and educating others makes things worse over time. Positive life skills can be learned where helping others to be free of another's control and in charge of their own destiny can be learned at any age. Your life will change when you can imagine a world where "bullying" is replaced by helping others to be independent as you have become.
Displacements And Diasporas
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Author : Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2005
Displacements And Diasporas written by Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Social Science categories.
Includes statistics.
The Uncertain Mind
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Author : Richard M. Sorrentino
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2013-05-13
The Uncertain Mind written by Richard M. Sorrentino and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Psychology categories.
This book discusses individual differences in how people react to uncertainty. The authors show that while some people are relatively comfortable dealing with uncertainty and strive to resolve it (uncertainty-oriented), others are more likely to avoid uncertainty, preferring the familiar or the known (certainty-oriented). They go on to examine the implications of an uncertainty orientation for understanding processes of self-knowledge, social cognition and attitude change, achievement, motivation and performance, interpersonal and group processes, and issues relating to physical and psychological health concerns. Research is discussed which links this uncertainty orientation to each of these issues, raising important practical and theoretical questions for each. The book also considers possible implications for people of both orientations of living in times that may be characterized as being uncertain.
Socialization
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Author : Philip Mayer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Socialization written by Philip Mayer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with Social Science categories.
This volume represents the first major effort to apply the distinctive techniques of British social anthropology to the subject of socialization. Along with methodological and theoretical discussion, there is a variety of new field material from Africa, Southeast Asia and elsewhere. First published in 1967.
Structure And Change In Indian Society
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Author : Bernard S. Cohn
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-13
Structure And Change In Indian Society written by Bernard S. Cohn and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-13 with Social Science categories.
Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally.The contributors demonstrate the adaptive changes experienced by the studied groups in particular villages, towns, cities, and regions. The authors view the basic social units of joint family, caste, and village not as structural isolates, but as intimately connected with one another and with other social units through social and cultural networks of various kinds that incorporate the social units into the complex structure of Indian civilization. Within this broadened conception of social structure, these studies trace the changing relations of politics, economics, law, and language to the caste system.Showing that the caste system is dynamic, with upward and downward mobility characterizing it from pre-British times to the present, the studies suggest that the modernizing forces which entered the system since independence--parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage, land reforms, modern education, urbanization, and industrial technology--provided new opportunities and paths to upward mobility, but did not radically alter the system. The chapters in this book show that the study of Indian society reveals novel forms of social structure change. They introduce methods and theories that may well encourage social scientists to extend the study of change in Indian society to the study of change in other areas.
Structure And Change In Indian Society
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Author : Milton B. Singer
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Structure And Change In Indian Society written by Milton B. Singer and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally. The contributors demonstrate the adaptive changes experienced by the studied groups in particular villages, towns, cities, and regions. The authors view the basic social units of joint family, caste, and village not as structural isolates, but as intimately connected with one another and with other social units through social and cultural networks of various kinds that incorporate the social units into the complex structure of Indian civilization. Within this broadened conception of social structure, these studies trace the changing relations of politics, economics, law, and language to the caste system. Showing that the caste system is dynamic, with upward and downward mobility characterizing it from pre-British times to the present, the studies suggest that the modernizing forces which entered the system since independence--parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage, land reforms, modern education, urbanization, and industrial technology--provided new opportunities and paths to upward mobility, but did not radically alter the system. The chapters in this book show that the study of Indian society reveals novel forms of social structure change. They introduce methods and theories that may well encourage social scientists to extend the study of change in Indian society to the study of change in other areas. Milton Singer (1912-1994) was Paul Klapper Professor of Social Sciences and professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He was a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also chosen as a distinguished lecturer by the American Anthropological Association and was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Association for Asian Studies. Bernard S. Cohn (1918-2003) was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He was widely known for his work on India during the British colonial period and wrote many books on the subject of India including India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization (1971), An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (1987), and Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge (1996).