ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Vilfredo Pareto
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Undoubtable steeped into a colonial way to his approach participants in his research knew what he was doing and why he was there. An invitation to see and think about disciplines like sociology and social anthropology as related rather than isolated or fundamentally distinct we have shared theoretical and intellectual histories. A turn away from the assumptions, methods, intellectual approaches of their predecessors; abandoning theory from afar in favour of close-up empirical observation a shift of perspective where malinowski comes in. Parsons as parsons wasn"t based on empirical research going into the field. Not a single theory, but a loose tradition; a network of many intellectual influences all come together to offer an understand the social in which actions in terms of the functions they perform. Functionalism assesses actions (what we do) in terms of the functions they perform (what they do to society)
