ABSTRACT
This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 12|20 pages
The concept of kinship
with special reference to Mr Needham's ‘Descent systems and ideal language'
chapter Chapter 14|9 pages
The alchemists of sociology
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
