Sociological Worlds
Subtitle: Comparative and Historical Readings on Society
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781579582845
Subjects: Social history; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociological Theory; Social Science; Sociology; SOC; SOC026000; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General
First sentence: In the 1960s, Marshall Sahlins was one of the first scholars to challenge the traditional wisdom that hunter-gatherers lived extremely bleak lives marked by continuous work and an extremely low standard of living.