Situational Logic, Social Structure, and Highland Burma [and Comments and Reply]

The theoretical gap between micro and macro levels of sociological analysis is handled by a concept set that integrates normative and transactional analyses of social phenomena. The concept set of situational logic-which refers to an actor's location in social structure and access to power and...

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Published in:Current anthropology 1976-03, Vol.17 (1), p.97-105
Main Authors: Prattis, J. I., Baltaxe, James, Elwert, Georg, Geschiere, P. L., Jarvie, I. C., Takenori, Kambe, Leach, Edmund, McFeat, Tom, Orans, Martin, Park, George
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Burma/Burmese
Cultural anthropology
Cultural customs
Ethnography
Game theory
Highlands
Logic/Logical/Logicians
Normativity
Political systems
Situation/Situations/Situational
Situational logic
Social structures
Social system/Social systems
Socialization
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