The Open Society and Its Enemies

Social Structure By Prof George Peter Murdock Pp xix + 387 (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co, Ltd, 1949) 33s 6d net

The Structure of Society

The methodological controversies and conflicting theoretical posi­tions in economic anthropology can be viewed as particular cases of much more general epistemological issues. It has unfortunately become commonplace in social science to contrast scientific, formal approaches as being somehow opposed to humanistic, phenomenological approaches, and furthermore to distinguish micro from macro levels of abstraction about social reality. These dichotomies are in fact false, as each one of these problematics are embedded within the domain that each discrete school of thought should address. Instead of examining these wider issues within any given approach, scholars have become polarised on the basis of discrete polemics, and scholarship has increasingly become confined within narrowly circumscribed sets of assumptions. The production of papers and monographs then often becomes devoted to the erection of intellectual barriers around inadequate or incomplete schools of thought, which then become mutual admiration societies of limited vision.

Alternative Views of Economy in Economic Anthropology

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Barthing Up the Wrong Tree

The theoretical gap between micro and macro levels of sociological analysis is handled by a concept set that integrates normative and transactional analyses of social phenomena. The concept set of situational logic-which refers to an actor's location in social structure and access to power and resources-when combined with equilibrium analysis, provides the necessary tools to comprehend how social systems operate. Political Systems of Highland Burma is analyzed to demonstrate that situational logic is (a) a sufficient analytic tool to reduce Leach's analysis to more lucid and parsimonious proportions, and (b) a basic conceptual tool in our understanding of social events.

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