ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book emphasises one of the main features of present-day sociological research, combinability of paradigms. It explores areas very close to its borderline with psychology: Bourdieu's and Giddens's borrowing ideas from psychoanalysis and the genre of social biography. The book considers translation in terms of the system-action relationship; the translation system is realised through translation actions and translation functions within the overall social system and through TCEs brings in social change and contributes to the social evolution or development. It describes Malinowski's or Parsons's functional perspective, helps the people to see that every society has to meet basic needs of its members as well as its own basic needs, which are related to the materiality of human existence: humans have to eat, drink, reproduce so that societies can exist and societies have to coordinate activities, maintain social order.
