The purpose of this lesson is to help you understand a fallacy known as attacking the motive, or when someone attacks the reasoning behind an argument, rather than the validity of the claim. Through the use of easy-to-understand examples and explanations, you'll also find out how to balance...
An argument defining "rich" structures and indicating why they are difficult to explain is used to show how the interpretive strategies of semiotic and structural anthropology fail to explain culture. Several sociological examples of successful explanation are then used to show that culture can be ...
examination of these types of explanation and their relationships, in which the usefulness and limitations of each are assessed. An extraordinary variety of examples from contemporary work in all the social sciences is used, including the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, ...
One way to renew conversation between linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics is to bring concepts of linguistic ideology to the explanation of the iconization of specific sociolinguistic variables and associated sociolinguistic change. Sociolinguists such as Eckert (2000) and Milroy (2004) have made...
Experimental observation, theoretical models, and biomechanical inference in the study of mandibular form American Journal of Physical AnthropologyDaegling DJ, and Hylander WL. 2000. Experimental observation, theoretical models, and biomechanical inference in the ... DJ Daegling,WL Hylander - 《...
Matt is an upcoming Ph.D. graduate and archaeologist. He has taught Anthropology, Geography, and Art History at the university level. Celestial navigation was one of the earliest ways in which humans could orient themselves to travel long distances. This lesson reviews basic principles of celestial...
A user can query the planner to retrieve rationale information from an action. A user can modify and/or add constraints to the plan and the planner can generate a new plan using a portion of the plan affected by the new constraints.
Asanother example, Credit Suisse estimates that BP needs a Brent price of $121 barrel in 2013 in order to have sufficient cash flow to cover both investment expenses and dividends. Oil has many very specific uses, and when used in these ways, substitution is very difficult. Oil ...
The author makes use of concrete examples drawn from recent works in sociology, economics, anthropology, political sciences, and geography to show, not unexpectedly, that “there is no single unified social science but rather a plurality of ‘sciences’ making use of different explanatory paradigms ...
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 12 ( 4 ): 432 – 452 .Woolard, K. A. (2008), `Why Dat Now? Linguistic-Anthropological Contributions to the Explanation of Sociolinguistic Icons and Change', Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12, no 4: 432-452....