A Comparative Study of the Social Organization of Antwrens on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

1985 ◽  
pp. 845-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Greenberg ◽  
Judy Gradwohl
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Barro Colorado Island ◽  
The Social

Dumézil's Tripartite Ideology: Some Critical Observations

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Gonda
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
The Comparative Study

In a long series of important and stimulating publications Georges Dumézil has for almost half a century not only re-established a complex of theories with regard to the comparative study of ancient Indo-European mythology, but also applied a modernized comparative method. In investigating the foundations of the Indo-European socio-religious conceptions he bases his arguments and conclusions, it is true, to a certain extent on linguistic data, but these are always amplified and corroborated by a thorough consideration of the social structure, religious beliefs and ritual institutions of the ancient Indians, Romans, Germans, Celts and Greeks. Especially these last thirty-five years his work is of great originality in that he has founded and developed the theory of the trois fonctions, of the “three fundamental activities which the groups of priests, warriors and producers must fulfil and assure in order to maintain their community”. In this theory it is not the tripartite social organization of the prehistoric Indo-Europeans that is emphasized, but the principle of classification, the ideology to which, in Dumézil's opinion, this organization has given rise. Being reflected in the groupings of, and mutual relations between, the divine powers and in the very structure of Indo-European mythology and view of the world it is here again the ideological rather than the strictly sociological aspects that invite the reader's attention.

A comparative study of the couple in the social organization of sexuality in France and the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Gagnon ◽  
Alain Giami ◽  
Stuart Michaels ◽  
Patrick de Colomby
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social

Social ethology of the wolverine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey P. Copeland ◽  
Arild Landa ◽  
Kimberly Heinemeyer ◽  
Keith B. Aubry ◽  
Jiska van Dijk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Social System ◽  
Group Living ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Ecological Framework ◽  
The Social ◽  
Living Species

Social behaviour in solitary carnivores has long been an active area of investigation but for many species remains largely founded in conjecture compared to our understanding of sociality in group-living species. The social organization of the wolverine has, until now, received little attention beyond its portrayal as a typical mustelid social system. In this chapter the authors compile observations of social interactions from multiple wolverine field studies, which are integrated into an ecological framework. An ethological model for the wolverine is proposed that reveals an intricate social organization, which is driven by variable resource availability within extremely large territories and supports social behaviour that underpins offspring development.

The Social Organization of the Western Apache.

Man ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 335
Author(s):  
R. R. Andersen ◽  
Grenville Goodwin ◽  
Keith H. Basso
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Western Apache ◽  
The Social

Comparative Study in the Barnyard

1975 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia L. Thrupp
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Theory ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Economic Data ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fundamental Shift

For anyone on the green side of fifty who didn't start historical browsing in the playpen it may be quite hard to see the present appeal of statistical theory and method in perspective. To one lucky enough to have been a student abroad in the 1920's, it is merely one of the consequences of a fundamental shift, which was firming in that decade, in conceptions of the economic historian's job. Essentially the shift consisted in making the economy and the social institutions in which it is embedded analytically distinct. Voices from the Polanyite school still claim that this step was as wrong as Adam's eating of the apple. Milder critics complain only that some of us let economic analysis run away with the ball to the neglect of social analysis and of the interplay between the two. For workers on the recent past this is defensible, because the heavy fall-out of purely economic data clamors to be dealt with in its own terms. The preindustrialist, who has to dig harder for data, and seldom turns up such pure economic ore, is more inclined to think in terms of interplay.

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