Social organization in microcosm : anomalies and ritual concentrate conflict -- Comparing on a grand scale : elementary forms do the organizing -- Building fundamental explanations : rituals do the institutionalizing, and institutions make change -- Analytic method is also ritua…
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Mary Douglas' 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 sicence by reworking Durk…
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. Thi…
Mary Douglas' 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 sicence by reworking Durk…
The many faces of predication -- Tales of predication -- A hypothesis -- Roots -- Assembly -- Implications and speculations.
"The predicative mind singles out and represents an item in order to attribute to it a property, a relation, an action, an evaluation; it thinks, and says, of a house that it is big, of a car that it is to the left of the house, of a cat that it is about to jump, of a hypothesis…
"The predicative mind singles out and represents an item in order to attribute to it a property, a relation, an action, an evaluation; it thinks, and says, of a house that it is big, of a car that it is to the left of the house, of a cat that it is about to jump, of a hypothesis…
The New York Times, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productiv…
Digitale Medien nehmen uns geistige Arbeit ab. Was wir früher einfach mit dem Kopf gemacht haben, wird heute von Computern, Smartphones, Organizern und Navis erledigt. Das birgt immense Gefahren, so der renommierte Gehirnforscher Manfred Spitzer. Die von ihm diskutierten Forschu…
Digitale Medien nehmen uns geistige Arbeit ab. Was wir früher einfach mit dem Kopf gemacht haben, wird heute von Computern, Smartphones, Organizern und Navis erledigt. Das birgt immense Gefahren, so der renommierte Gehirnforscher Manfred Spitzer. Die von ihm diskutierten Forschu…
