Rationality /
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| Edition: | 4th impression. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Blackwell, 1979, c1970. |
| Description: | xviii, 275 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Key concepts in the social sciences Key concepts in the social sciences. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9341936 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- A Sociologist's Introduction
- 1. The Idea of a Social Science
- 2. Concepts and Society
- 3. Explaining Cargo Cults
- 4. Is Understanding Religion Compatible with Believing?
- 5. Understanding a Primitivb Socibty
- 6. The Idea of a Social Science
- 7. African Traditional Thought and Western Sciencb
- 8. The Problem of the Rationality of Magic
- 9. Some Problems About Rationality
- 10. The Limits of Irrationality
- 11. Reason and Ritual
- 12. On Understanding Ritual
- Bibliography
- Index of Names