{"product_id":"the-retreat-of-the-social-the-rise-and-rise-of-reductionism-9781845451752","title":"The Retreat of the Social: The Rise and Rise of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tThe essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e The Social Construction of Reductionist Thought and Practice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBruce Kapferer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e The Relocation of the Social and the Retrenchment of the Elites\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJonathan Friedman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Legends of Fordism: Between Myth, History, and Foregone Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGeorge Baca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e More Power to You, or Should It Be Less?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eChristopher C. Taylor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Methodological Individualism and Sociological Reductionism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRoger Just\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Reductionism and Misunderstanding Human Sociality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eThomas Ernst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Theories and Ideologies in Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJukka Siikala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Death of the Indian Social\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRohan Bastin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e When Nothing Stands Outside the Self\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAndré Iteanu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e From Bell Curve to Power Law: Distributional Models between National and World Society\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKeith Hart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515988611415,"sku":"9781845451752","price":11.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845451752.jpg?v=1745428425","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-retreat-of-the-social-the-rise-and-rise-of-reductionism-9781845451752","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}