British Community Studies

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This chapter examines what kind of contribution concepts developed in the course of community studies can make to the general development of social anthropology as comparative sociology. It discusses briefly British community studies to one another in order that they may both illuminate classical and modern sociological theories and themselves be illuminated by these. The chapter suggests that an approach whereby what is positive in an anthropological approach can be applied to the study of social life in the characteristic unit of urban industrial society - the city. It shows that the view that what is positive about British social anthropology has been its emphasis on processes of change. The problem of synthesis in British community studies is the problem of making micro-sociology relevant to macro-sociology. Thus Evans-Pritchard in The Nuer sets out to give an analysis in structural terms of Nuer political organization.

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