Marcel Mauss’s scientific contributions

... 104 The notion of "uncivilized" societies was thus defined out of existence. 105 These systematic, logical rejections of the ideas of "race" and "uncivilized" societies were widely shared among Durkheim's prewar pleiad. 106 Célestin Bouglé, one of Durkheim's closest collaborators, wrote in 1908 that "the guiding thesis of the philosophy of races-so much used and abused in the nineteenth centuryseems to have been decisively abandoned." ...

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Durkheim's Critique of Colonialism and Empire

... Produites par une histoire européenne de la domination sociale de toute organisation scolaire (Durkheim, 1938(Durkheim, /2024Sembel, 2024), les conséquences de ces inégalités toujours d'actualité (Mehta & Davies, 2018) sont loin d'avoir été complètement tirées (Sembel, 2023). Le fait que les savoirs scolaires soient d'abord et globalement des savoirs de catégorie favorisée produits par des catégories favorisées et transmis par des membres des catégories favorisées pour des élèves des catégories favorisées, source de toute connivence culturelle (Bourdieu, Passeron, 1964, 1970, peut être pensé comme un fait social total civilisationnel (Durkheim & Mauss, 1913/1969Durkheim, 1938Durkheim, /2024Sembel 2024), extrêmement répandu et durable. Ces savoirs sont globalement moribonds, pour les membres des catégories socialement favorisées auxquels elle/ils sont socialement trop familières/ers et qui les instrumentalisent ; tout autant que pour les membres des catégories populaires desquelles elle/ils sont trop distant-es et qui leur restent étrangères/ers. ...

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Hors du social, de la culture et du monde, mais pas hors de soi ni de l’entre-soi : comment une relation pédagogique peut ne pas être citoyenne ?

... Max Gluckman Como se nos ha recordado con insistencia en los últimos años, el interés por las dimensiones morales de la vida social aparece en forma muy temprana en la historia de la sociología, en virtud de que al menos dos de sus "padres fundadores" -Durkheim (Durkheim, 1993;Karsenti, 2012) y Weber (Brubaker, 1985;Kalinowski, 2012)-colocaron la preocupación por la moral y lo moral en un lugar central de sus propuestas teóricas. Este lugar de destaque de la moral en la agenda sociológica durkheimiana habrá de prolongarse en las primeras décadas del siglo XX en la tradición de L'Année Sociologique, que dará origen a la sociología y la etnología francesas (Mauss, 1925;Fournier, 2006), mientras que del otro lado del Atlántico será incorporada junto con su contraparte weberiana en la síntesis de Parsons (1968), cuya teoría de la acción social otorga a normas y valores un papel sustantivo en la dimensión subjetiva de la acción social. Aun así, el predicamento y la difusión de las que disfrutará el proyecto parsoniano durante varias décadas en la sociología noratlántica habrá de tener por efecto paradójico que estas preocupaciones por la moral y lo moral a las que los instauradores de la disciplina colocaban en un lugar central pasen a ocupar una posición derivativa, subterránea o adventicia, no solo en la obra del maestro de Harvard, sino también en la de sus numerosos epígonos y críticos (Alexander, 2000). ...

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Introducción. Las Dimensiones Morales de la Vida Colectiva

... One of the best examples of this materialization of intangible meanings is the system of organization defined by the Zu ni, a North American native tribe. The Zuni divide their cosmos into seven regions, which are then phy sical ly applied to the organization of the clan (Mauss 1903). ...

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Carved in stone: Exploring the petrification phenomenon of late 3rd millennium BC in southern Portugal

... Durkheim, 2005). Bununla beraber, Durkheim'ın sadece 1883-1884 senelerinde, felsefe, psikoloji, mantık, etik ve metafizik konularında Lycée de Sens Course kurumunda verdiği felsefe derslerini (Durkheim, 2018) (Durkheim, 1903), diğer çalışmasında ise düşüncenin temel kategorileriyle ilgilenmiştir (Durkheim, 1912(Durkheim, /2005). Durkheim'a (Jones, 2012, s. 405) göre akıl; temel kategorilerin bütününden başka herhangi bir şey değildir ve bu kategoriler sınıflandırıcı şemaların evrensel çekirdeğini temsil etmektedirler. ...

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PERSPEKTİVİZMİN ÇELİŞKİLİ DÜNYASI VE DURKHEİM’IN AHLAKİ VE MANTIKSAL BÜTÜNLEŞME İDEALİ

... Individual consciousness is subsumed into the framing of social fear. Durkheim and Mauss (1963) point to the liquidity of emotions, insofar as attempts at sequestering emotions into fixed analytical categories are nearly impossible. Liquid metaphors abound as ways of describing modernity; Bauman links liquid modernity and liquid fear as features of our current state of affairs: an ever-present susceptibility to danger, a pervasive insecurity, a sense of drowning in the hydrous, inescapable feeling of doom arising day by day (Bauman, 2006, p. 3). ...

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Fear and Loathing in an Indonesian Island: An Ethnographic Study of Community Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

... E somos procurados para comentar quase tudo. Isso porque, para a mídia brasileira, os antropólogos foram transformados em especialistas de qualquer 13 Neste ano de 1968, o curso funcionava no terceiro andar da reitoria. Nossa sala, bem grande, se abria para um terraço enorme, sobre a frente do prédio. ...

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Sobre perman�ncias e transforma��es em contextos acad�mico-institutionais: um relato pessoal

... Even before becoming important in science and technology studies, the question of boundaries was a classical object of study for social scientists (Lamont and Molnár, 2002;Vergne and Wry, 2014). In fact, it is inseparable from the original work on categories, as sets transmitted to and legitimised by the members of a society in order to organise the social world (Durkheim and Mauss, 1903). The pragmatic turn taken by the social sciences in the 1980s, notably with the theories of situated action and cognition (Suchman, 1987), challenged these perceptions by focusing on the act of categorisation. ...

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On-farm agricultural inputs and changing boundaries: Innovations around production of microorganisms in Brazil

... The nexus between social processes and spatial configurations has increasingly captivated academic inquiry, propelling the evolution of sophisticated theoretical frameworks regarding their interplay. Durkheim et al. (1963) contend that space is intrinsically linked to social organization and is interpreted variably across cultures. Urban space theory pioneers, such as Harvey (1973Harvey ( , 1982 and Castells (1972), conceptualize urban spaces as mirrors of capital accumulation and social reproduction processes. ...

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Mapping the Future Landscape: Ghettoization Patterns of Roma Population in Northwestern Bulgaria