1st Edition
Corporations and Society The Social Anthropology of Collective Action
By M.G. Smith
Copyright 1974
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
383 Pages
by
Routledge
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Few would doubt that social science is in serious need of a new conceptual framework for the study of human organizations. For some time now such a framework has been sought in the notion that societies are functional systems, in which the individual sectors--economy, religion, government and so on--can be seen as subsystems dependent on each other and integrated within a whole. But in spite of... Read more
Preface 1. On Segmentary Lineage Systems 2. Anthropological Studies Politics 3. A Structural Approach to Comparative Politics 4. Th e Sociological Framework of Law 5. Pre-Industrial Stratification Systems 6. A Structural Approach to the Study of Political Change 7. Institutional and Political Conditions of Pluralism 8. Th e Comparative Study of Complex Societies 9. Race and Stratification i n the Caribbean
Biography
M.G. Smith
