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Goals and Behaviour
In the first part of this paper I intend to argue that anthropologists have a predominantly causal conception of explanation and that the only feasible way to avoid this is to apply consistently the assumption of goal-orientation of behaviour, that is to hold what could broadly be called a teleological conception of explanation – a view that developments are due to the purpose or design that is served by them. Further on I will try to show that groups and norms do not exist and act independently of people. They have no existence as “things” apart from forming a part of the relevant stock of knowledge of the members of society. They can be brought to bear on actions only by people invoking them. Thus we have to make a sharp distinction between the conceptual or notional level of phenomena, and the transactional or processual level, sometimes known as cultural and social respectively.
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Cíle a chování
- ISSN
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1804-0616
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 9-42
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Historická sociologie / Historical Sociology(2)
- Thema
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Stuchlík, Milan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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2014
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-423769
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Stuchlík, Milan
Entstanden
- 2014
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