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Thinking about Society: Theory and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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Thinking about Society: Theory and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 93
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I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center
of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics,
where Bronislaw Malinowski was the object of ancestor worship.
Jarvie's doctorate was in philosophy, however, under the guidance
of Karl Popper and John Watkins. He changed his department not as a
defector but as a rebel, attempting to exorcize the ancestral
spirit. He criticized the method of participant obser vation not as
useless but as not comprehensive: it is neither necessary nor
sufficient for the making of certain contributions to anthropology;
rather, it all depends on the problem-situation. And so Jarvie
remained an anthro pologist at heart, who, in addition to some
studies in rather conventional anthropological or sociological
molds, also studied the tribe of social scien tists, but also
critically examining their problems - especially their overall,
rather philosophical problems, but not always so: a few of the
studies in cluded in this volume exemplify his work on specific
issues, whether of technology, or architecture, or nationalism in
the academy, or moviemaking, or even movies exhibiting excessive
sex and violence. These studies attract his attention both on
account of their own merit and on account of their need for new and
powerful research tools, such as those which he has forged in his
own intellectual workshop over the last two decades."
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