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... CENTRAL CONCEPTS Roles and Performances Sex and Gender Family and Kinship Communities and Identities Class and Status Social Mobility and Social Distinction 26 34 38 44 47 50 54 57 60 64 Consumption and Exchange 66 Cultural and Social ...
... CENTRAL CONCEPTS Roles and Performances Sex and Gender Family and Kinship Communities and Identities Class and Status Social Mobility and Social Distinction 26 34 38 44 47 50 54 57 60 64 Consumption and Exchange 66 Cultural and Social ...
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... CENTRAL PROBLEMS 116 Rationality versus Relativism 116 Concepts of Culture 119 Consensus versus Conflict 122 Facts versus Fictions 124 Structures versus Agents 127 Functionalism 128 The Example of Venice 131 Structuralism 134 The Return ...
... CENTRAL PROBLEMS 116 Rationality versus Relativism 116 Concepts of Culture 119 Consensus versus Conflict 122 Facts versus Fictions 124 Structures versus Agents 127 Functionalism 128 The Example of Venice 131 Structuralism 134 The Return ...
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Contents
Theorists and Historians | 1 |
Models and Methods | 21 |
Central Concepts | 44 |
Central Problems | 116 |
Social Theory and Social Change | 141 |
Postmodernity and Postmodernism | 172 |
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