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Vernon J. Williams Jr.'s "The Social Sciences and Theories of Race" focuses on anthropology and sociology's engagement with some of the U.S.'s most enduring problems: race and race relations. In discussing the work of key scholars (both black and white) on race and culture, including Franz Boas, George W. Ellis, Booker T. Washington, Ulysses G. Wetherley, and Monroe N. Work, Williams demonstrates the dynamic nature of their ideas and reveals the social, cultural, and intellectual forces that influenced their supposedly value-neutral scientific thinking. The evolution of their work is outlined through expert use of a variety of tools from social, cultural, and intellectual history, as well as biography and autobiography. Williams shows that ethnicity, and a range of social and political pressures had important impacts on the developing fields of both sociology and anthropology, and he demonstrates that those working in the social sciences can improve their own analyses by understanding the mentality of the observer whose work they're evaluating.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: SOCIAL SCIENCES & THEORIES OF RACE
• Author: Williams, Vernon J., Robert Jordan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• EAN: 9780252073205
• ISBN: 0252073207
• ID: 04869237
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 263 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. September 2006

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