Meaning in Culture

Meaning in Culture
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 146
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781136540882
ISBN-13 : 1136540881
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Meaning in Culture by : F. Allan Hanson

Download or read book Meaning in Culture written by F. Allan Hanson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaning in Culture discusses the question of whether 'culture' refers to some superorganic entity that exists in its own right, or is only convenient short-hand for the shared beliefs and behaviour of human individuals. It also investigates the problem of relativism and explores the question of whether anthropology and the other social sciences are really scientific. First published in 1975.


Meaning in Culture Related Books

Meaning in Culture
Language: en
Pages: 146
Authors: F. Allan Hanson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-08 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Meaning in Culture discusses the question of whether 'culture' refers to some superorganic entity that exists in its own right, or is only convenient short-hand
Culture as a System
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: David B. Kronenfeld
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-07 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it
The Meaning of Culture
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: John Cowper Powys
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11 - Publisher: Pomona Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'Mr. Powys is to be congratulated on having written a book of the kind that most needs writing and most deserves to be read...Here in a dozen chapters of eloque
Acts of Meaning
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Jerome Bruner
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-01-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as “information processor,” has led psychology away from the deeper ob
Culture, Self, and Meaning
Language: en
Pages: 118
Authors: Victor de Munck
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-07-14 - Publisher: Waveland Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this highly informative and interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between culture and psyche, de Munck provides a substantive introduction to per