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Thinking about Society: Theory and Practice

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    Chapter 1 The Notion of a Social Science
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    Chapter 2 Social Perception and Social Change
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    Chapter 3 Realism and the Supposed Poverty of Sociological Theories
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    Chapter 4 Rationality and relativism
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    Chapter 5 Popper on the Difference between the Natural and the Social Sciences
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    Chapter 6 The Emergence of Social Anthropology from Philosophy
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    Chapter 7 On Theories of Fieldwork and the Scientific Character of Social Anthropology
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    Chapter 8 Limits to Functionalism and Alternatives to It in Anthropology
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    Chapter 9 On the Objectivity of Anthropology
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    Chapter 10 The Problem of Ethical Integrity in Participant Observation
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    Chapter 11 Anthropology as Science and the Anthropology of Science and of Anthropology
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    Chapter 12 Epistle to the Anthropologists
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    Chapter 13 On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology
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    Chapter 14 The Problem of the Ethnographic Real
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    Chapter 15 Anthropologists and the Irrational
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    Chapter 16 Freeman on Mead
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    Chapter 17 The Objectivity of Criticism of the Arts
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    Chapter 18 The Rationality of Creativity
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    Chapter 19 Technology and the Structure of Knowledge
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    Chapter 20 The Social Character of Technological Problems
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    Chapter 21 Is Technology Unnatural?
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    Chapter 22 Utopian Thinking and the Architect
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    Chapter 23 Nationalism and the Social Sciences
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    Chapter 24 Explorations in the Social Career of Movies: Business and Religion
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    Chapter 25 Methodological and Conceptual Problems in the Study of Pornography and Violence
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Title
Thinking about Society: Theory and Practice
Published by
Springer Netherlands, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-5424-3
ISBNs
978-9-40-108894-7, 978-9-40-095424-3
Authors

Jarvie, I. C.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 8 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 3 38%
Researcher 2 25%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 13%
Unknown 1 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 50%
Arts and Humanities 2 25%
Philosophy 2 25%