Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007) Mary Douglas, British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism. Her area is social anthropology, where she is considered a follower of Durkheim, with a strong interest in comparative religion. She was born as Margaret Mary Tew in San Remo, Italy; her parents were in the British colonial service. [...]
Edward O. Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), naturalist (conservationist) and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants. Wilson is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. He is known for his scientific career, his role as “the father of [...]
Harold Conklin Harold C. Conklin used Sapir and Whorf Hypothesis that has to do with the relationship of language and thought. And together they came up with this idea that language not just a tool for communication but rather it a way they communicate base on the their perception of the world. So back to [...]
The theorists of the culture and personality school argue that culture creates personality patterns. One’s culture helps shape people’s emotions, thought behavior, values and norms that fit their surroundings. Ruth Benedict focuses on the relationship between culture and individual personality and Mead describes the relationship between culture and human nature. Question: Does personality create culture, [...]
The readings from this section share some similar tendencies, one among these is the idea of human interaction as an evolutionary process. Spenser’s theory is very unilateral in suggesting that civilization progress, or evolve. His writing gives an analogous view of civilization and human interaction as a biological organism, suggesting that the social factors of [...]
