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  1. The system of the structure: Structuralism and social systems theory.Hugo Cadenas - 2012 - Cinta de Moebio 45:204-214.
    This article addresses the relationship between the structuralism, especially the anthropological version of the latter in Levi-Strauss and Luhmann’s theory of social systems. The analysis is done through two guiding hypotheses. It reviews the historical background relating structuralism with systems theory and discusses the fundamental concepts that appear in this relationship. Luhmann's systems thinking are contrasted in some of its central concepts with Lévi-Strauss’s structuralist perspective. The paper concludes with a review of the hypotheses presented and some proposals about the (...)
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  • A reappraisal of the concept of 'culture'.Larry Brownstein - 1995 - Social Epistemology 9 (4):311 – 351.
    Abstract This investigation considers a number of approaches to the definition and analysis of ?culture?. It shows that although approaches to culture span a wide range of viewpoints, there are gems that can be distilled and developed. To that end, a definition of ?culture? is proposed that it is contended captures much of the positive character in what has preceded it and hopefully avoids the negative. This is followed by a discussion of some of the most important studies concerned with (...)
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  • An exchange on vertical drift and the Quest for theoretical integration in sociology.Harry Bash - 1989 - Social Epistemology 3 (3):229 – 246.
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  • The Cultural Mind: Environmental Decision Making and Cultural Modeling Within and Across Populations.Scott Atran, Douglas L. Medin & Norbert O. Ross - 2005 - Psychological Review 112 (4):744-776.
    This paper describes a cross-cultural research project on the relation between how people conceptualize nature and how they act in it. Mental models of nature differ dramatically among and within populations living in the same area and engaged in more or less the same activities. This has novel implications for environmental decision making and management, including dealing with commons problems. Our research also offers a distinct perspective on models of culture, and a unified approach to the study of culture and (...)
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  • Cultural evolution.Robert Artigiani - 1987 - World Futures 23 (1):93-121.
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  • Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity, and the Sciences.David Alvargonzález - 2011 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25 (4):387-403.
    The ideas of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity have been widely applied to the relationship between sciences. This article is an attempt to discuss the reasons why scientific interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity pose specific problems. First of all, certain questions about terminology are taken into account in order to clarify the meaning of the word ?discipline? and its cognates. Secondly, we argue that the specificity of sciences does not lie in becoming disciplines. Then, we focus on the relationship between sciences, and between sciences (...)
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  • Energy, Complexity, and Strategies of Evolution: As Illustrated by Maya Indians of Guatemala.Richard N. Adams - 2010 - World Futures 66 (7):470-503.
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  • Human dignity and technology.Richard Watson - 1971 - World Futures 9 (3):211-241.
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  • Mathematical naturalism: An anthropological perspective.Stephen Pollard & Robert Bates Graber - 1989 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 27 (3):427-441.
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  • A Comprehensive Definition of Technology from an Ethological Perspective.La Shun L. Carroll - 2017 - Social Sciences.
    Definitions, uses, and understanding of technology have varied tremendously since Jacob Bigelow’s Elements of Technology in 1829. In addition to providing a frame of reference for understanding technology, the purpose of this study was to define or describe it conceptually. A determination of dimensions comprising technology was made by critiquing historical and contemporary examples of definition by Bigelow and Volti. An analytic-synthetic method was employed to deconstruct both definitions spanning two centuries to derive aspects of technology. Definitions relying on an (...)
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