Cultural Theory

by M. Thompson, Aaron Wildavsky, Richard J. Ellis

Taking their cue from the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas, the authors of Cultural Theory expound on Douglas' four-fold typology to describe five ways of life and how to use them collectively as an analytic tool in the examination of people, culture, and politics. They also provide brief but thorough overviews of the works of Montesquieu, Compte, Spencer, Durkeheim, Marx, Weber, Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Parsons, Merton, Stinchcombe, and Elster. They show how cultural theorists can develop large numbers of falsifiable propositions.

296 pages, Hardcover

First published June 18, 1990

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