Rationality
By: edited by Bryan R. Wilson.
Series: Key concepts in the social sciences; A Torchbook library edition.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Evanston [Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Intercultural communication; Rationalism; Ethnology -- Methodology
Table of contents: title: A sociologist's introduction, by B. R. Wilson.; title: The idea of a social science, by P. Winch.; title: Concepts and society, by E. Gellner.; title: Explaining cargo cults, by I. C. Jarvie.; title: Is understanding religion compatible with believing? by A. MacIntyre.; title: Understanding a primitive society, by P. Winch.; title: The idea of a social science, by A. MacIntyre.; title: African traditional thought and Western science, by R. Horton.; title: The problem of the rationality of magic, by I. C. Jarvie and J. Agassi.; title: Some problems about rationality, by S. Lukes.; title: The limits of irrationality, by M. Hollis.; title: Reason and ritual, by M. Hollis.; title: On understanding ritual, by J. H. M. Beattie.; title: Bibliography (p. [269]-271)