Sociological Theory and Cultural Practice 02.06-S2-EN-ST

1 Diffusionism and Evolutionism (archaeology)

2 Functionalism (Bronisław Malinowski, Alfred R. Ratcliffe-Brown, fieldwork)

3 Structuralism (Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Lévi-Strauss, from linguistics to fieldwork and interpretation)

4 Culture and Personality approach (Franz Boas, Ruth Beneditct, Margaret Mead, Mary Douglas)

5 Sociological theories: Positivist (functionalist) tradition

6 Materialist and conflict tradition

7 Interpretivist (anti-positivist) tradition, or from Protestant Ethic to Thick Description.

8 Ecological tradition (Chicago: development of fieldwork methods; identity, inequality, racial and ethnic relations)

9 World-system approach: core, semiperiphery, and periphery (Wallerstein: merging materialist and functional tradition; applying social theory to explain historical developments)

10 Colonialism and Internal Colonialism

11 Orientalism

12 Structural relations as cultural differences (Bourdieu, Bennett et al.)

13 Habitus (strong links between anthropology and sociology: Elias, Bourdieu, Wacquant, Saba Mahmood).

14 Ethnicity and state: Gellner, Nations and Nationalism; B. Anderson, Imagined Communities, (East and Central Europe, and worldwide).

15 The problem of "civilizations": Elias (The Civilizing Process), Gellner (Muslim Society), Huntington (The Clash of Civilizations).

16 Multisited ethnography: Materialist approach to study work cultures across the world: Zambia, USA, Hungary, Russia... (Burawoy).

17 Cultural Materialism: Cultural Materialism: from studying cultures (Marvin Harris) to studying cultural production (Raymond Williams).