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SOCIAL TERM: Στατιστική μονάδα / Statistical unit

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TERM TYPE: Methodological

SOCIAL TERM: Στρατηγική / Strategy

APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1

TERM TYPE: Theoretical

DEFINITION (1): A term originally found in theories of rational choice (Κανάκης, Λελεδάκης 2006,p.438), was further developed by Pierre Bourdieu who used it “to designate the sequences of actions objectively oriented towards an end”.

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Deligiannidou Maria

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σ.438

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σ.438

SOCIAL TERM: Δομικός μετασχηματισμός / Structural transformation

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TERM TYPE: Theoretical

DEFINITION (1): Maurice Bloch in his stydy of the ritual, observes that the symbolic structure changes with the appearance of new symbols or the disappearance of others. And the transformation of symbolism corresponds in transformation of structure (1986,p.124)..

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Deligiannidou Maria

DEFINITION COMMENTS: Bloch introduces the... idea of “plasticity” (ibid:167) to show the way that the ritual, seen from the functional perspective, has reacted to the politico-economic events. He concludes that: “History has no beginning: People always act in a world constructed by previous generations. What we are seeking, therefore, when we try to understand how events construct culture are not rules of formation from a zero point but rules of transformation of an already existing system” (1986:194). -Bloch, M., 1986, From blessing to violence. History and ideology of the circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, σ. 194.

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σ.124

SOCIAL TERM: Δομολειτουργισμός / Structural functionalism

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TERM TYPE: Theoretical

DEFINITION (1): The theoretical perspective associated with A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (though he rejected the term) and his followers. It involved the emphasis on synchronic analysis of societies as isolated wholes. Each society was conceived as a set of systems related to each other analogously to the systems of a biological organism (cf. organic analogy). The approach dominated British anthropology from the 1940s to the 1960s (Barnard,Spencer, 2002,p. 931).

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Deligiannidou Maria

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σ.931

SOCIAL TERM: Δομισμός / Structuralism

APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1

TERM TYPE: Theoretical

DEFINITION (1): The concept that the world is made up of relationships rather than things, constitutes the first principle of the “structuralist” thinking (Hawkes, 1977,p.7).

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Deligiannidou Maria

DEFINITION COMMENTS: The term “structuralism”... has been used in anthropology to designate theories which were originally developed from the 1940s onward by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. Lévi- Strauss notes: “Social Anthropology does not separate material and spiritual culture... If men communicate by means of symbols and signs, then, for anthropology, which is a conversation of man with man, everything is symbol and sign, when it acts as intermediary between two objects... Such views picture social anthropology not on the model of the inductive sciences as they were conceived of in the nineteenth century, but rather as a taxonomy, whose purpose is to identify and to classify types, to analyze their constituent parts, and to establish correlations between them” (Lévi-Strauss 1967: 20-21). - Lévi-Strauss, C., 1967, The Scope of Anthropology, trans. Ortner, & Paul, London: Jonathan Cape thirty bedford square, σ. 20-21

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SOCIAL TERM: Στατιστική μονάδα / Statistical unit

SOCIAL TERM: Στρατηγική / Strategy

DEFINITION (1): A term originally found in theories of rational choice (Κανάκης, Λελεδάκης 2006,p.438), was further developed by Pierre Bourdieu who used it “to designate the sequences of actions objectively oriented towards an end”.

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σ.438

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σ.438

SOCIAL TERM: Δομικός μετασχηματισμός / Structural transformation

DEFINITION (1): Maurice Bloch in his stydy of the ritual, observes that the symbolic structure changes with the appearance of new symbols or the disappearance of others. And the transformation of symbolism corresponds in transformation of structure (1986,p.124)..

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σ.124

SOCIAL TERM: Δομολειτουργισμός / Structural functionalism

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σ.931

SOCIAL TERM: Δομισμός / Structuralism

DEFINITION (1): The concept that the world is made up of relationships rather than things, constitutes the first principle of the “structuralist” thinking (Hawkes, 1977,p.7).

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σ.7

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SOCIAL TERM: Στατιστική μονάδα / Statistical unit

SOCIAL TERM: Στρατηγική / Strategy

DEFINITION (1): A term originally found in theories of rational choice (Κανάκης, Λελεδάκης 2006,p.438), was further developed by Pierre Bourdieu who used it “to designate the sequences of actions objectively oriented towards an end”.

REFERENCE:

σ.438

REFERENCE:

σ.438

SOCIAL TERM: Δομικός μετασχηματισμός / Structural transformation

DEFINITION (1): Maurice Bloch in his stydy of the ritual, observes that the symbolic structure changes with the appearance of new symbols or the disappearance of others. And the transformation of symbolism corresponds in transformation of structure (1986,p.124)..

REFERENCE:

σ.124

SOCIAL TERM: Δομολειτουργισμός / Structural functionalism

REFERENCE:

σ.931

SOCIAL TERM: Δομισμός / Structuralism

DEFINITION (1): The concept that the world is made up of relationships rather than things, constitutes the first principle of the “structuralist” thinking (Hawkes, 1977,p.7).

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σ.7

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