Elements of Social Organization

by Raymond Firth

Part of the Josiah Mason Lectures delivered at the University of Birmingham. Illustrated with photos.

Genres: Anthropology

Paperback

First published February 18, 1981

About the author

Sir Raymond William Firth CNZM FRAI FBA was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies (social organization) is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society (social structure). He was a long serving professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, and is considered to have singlehandedly created a form of British economic anthropology.

Reviews

[Alienne Laval · Rating 5 out of 5]

The trumpet did not quite sound then, but the direction was known: we want cargo!

A model of three proper subsets: actual structure, structure of expectations, structure of ideals...

A cognitive collapse of the interfaces was to expect!