Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture
Contributors: John Bowen (Editor); Roger Petersen (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521653015
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Politics and culture; History & Theory - General; Ethnology And Ethnography; Political Theory; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Political aspects; Political Science; Anthropology - General; Culture--Political aspects; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Comparative method; Culture; Ethnology; Social Science
First sentence: The social sciences today are torn apart by a tension between two desires: to richly describe the world, showing its complexity and variability, and to robustly model the world, showing its relationships and regularities.