Levi-Strauss (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)

What is the significance of Structuralism for social science? How original is L¿-Strauss' contribution to social theory? Is he Marxist? Though Structuralism, and its leading representative L¿-Strauss, are central to sociology, anthropology and psychology, the complexity of his work and the obscurity of his commentators have often proved a barrier to understanding. Now for the first time, Dr Badcock provides a jargon-free assessment of L¿-Strauss' place in the tradition of French sociological thought ¿ particularly to predecessors such as Comte, Durkheim and Mauss ¿ discusses his relationship to Marx, Sartre, Freud and Talcott Parsons and provides a concise, non-technical account of his complex ideas on kinship, totenism and myth.

• | Author: C. R. Badcock
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Dec 21, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 128 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138979759
• | ISBN-13: 9781138979758