Carleton College Department of Sociology and Anthropology
 
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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XAMPLES OF FOUNDATIONAL THEORETICAL ORIENTATIONS

1. EVOLUTIONISM

early evolution
neo-evolution
cultural ecology
cultural materialism
sociobiology
ethology
material culture

2. CONFLICT Marxian conflict
neo-Marxian conflict
Simmelian conflict
early American conflict
non-Marxian conflict
3. SOCIAL ACTION Weberian social action
Bailey social action
Parsonian voluntarism
American symbolic interactionism
generative models (Barth)
phenomenological Marxism (Lukacs)
critical theory (Frankfurt school)
exchange theory
4. STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM Durkheim social facts
British structural functionalism
systems theory
cybernetics
game theory
network analysis
5. HISTORICAL PARTICULARISM/DIFFUSIONISM Boasian historical particularism
Kulturkreise school
British diffusionism
Ethnohistory

6. PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

culture and personality
neo-psychological anthropology
formal analysis/new ethnography
sociolinguistics
acculturation
symbolic anthropology
7. STRUCTURALISM Levi-Straussian
Althusserian (scientific Marxism)
ethnomethodology
dialectical anthropology
8. OTHERS interpretive anthropology (Geertz)
practice theory (Bourdieu)
feminist theory
postmodernism

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