Rationality /

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Edition:4th impression.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Wilson, Bryan R.
ISBN:063109900X
9780631099000
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p) and index.
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