Corporations and Society: The Social Anthropology of Collective Action

ISBN-13: 9780202309484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str.

M. G. Smith

Opis

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 the major advances in research which modern systems theory has brought about, it is based inevitably on a priori assumptions which are often at variance with the facts, or require the facts to be interpreted in a special way to fi t the theory.

O autorze

M.G. Smith