Now and then he refers to people outside the narrow behavioral science ambit such as Goldschmidt is not exhibitionistic about his reading, though Reading, but I did not catch how much had been introduced from history, psychology,Įconomics, and other fields. Skillful and pertinent selection from sociological fact and theory was obvious on first That I had underestimated the amount of genuine and unobtrusive integration. Powerful." A second reading caused me to revise this judgment sharply. There are some nice points here and there. It is clearly written, and there is very little to which exception can be My reaction on first reading was something like Rather than as concepts or relations gets one into needless trouble. From experience I find that to take "values" as qualities 66) strikes meĪs both vague and equivocal. Tury and later-not for the Homeric poems. The linkage of arete with virtue holds for Greek culture of the fifth cen1098 Reviewer involve matters of pedantic detail or of personal opinion. Their potentialities for particular kinds of achievement. Of each gene pool, it seems very likely indeed that populations differ quantitatively in But, on the premise that specific capacities are influenced by the properties That "man's innate capacity does not vary from one population to another." Conceivably, if there were a calculus whereby pluses and minuses for this and that capacityĬould be totaled, the overall figure for all populations might come out approximately Incidence of mapped genes among different peoples, it seems unwise to assume flatly In the light of accumulating information as to significantly varying This reviewer will challenge only oneĬrucial postulate. There is a good deal ofĮthnographic data as well as remarks on the contemporary scene, including a sizeableĪ reviewer is expected to pick a few quarrels. Point and another he has something to say about the conventional topics of culturalĪnthropology such as language, values, cultural relativity. Involvement or the implications of historical continuity and cultural diffusion. The denial of any of anthropology's major orientations: the psychodynamics of cultural Takes pains to point out explicitly that his theoretical organization does not involve Goldschmidt thus offers "a broad system of generalization within which more specific uniformities and regularities may be examined." His thesis is built upon the assumption that the sociological and evolutionary constructs require one another. Proceeds "largely (but not entirely)" subject to its self-contained, inner dynamic according to "an internal logic based upon man's rational efforts to meet his needs." Treated as an independent variable, while the character of the social system concomitant with this technological growth is taken as the dependent variable. Man's gradually increasing mastery over his material requirements is, however, ThreeĬhapters ("The Mechanisms of Social Evolution," "Evolution and the Social Imperative," "The Evolution of Society") out of seven focus upon the evolutionary theme. One major kind of orderliness in the variation is evolutionary development. Place, with the accidents of history and environment. How the imperatives are met vary with time and Society is organized "to balance off the pull of individual selfseeking against the demands of social harmony." The formulation and preserv ation of The need for positive affect is universally human. The book begins with a consideration of "the biologicalĬonstant." Human beings are committed to social existence. While there is a constant concern with theĬharacter and evolution of social forms, the nature of man is a point of departure andĪ central theme throughout. ("i.e., functional") and the evolutionary. The argument of this book revolves around two conceptual axes: the sociological (Trade Edition: Cleveland The World Publishing Company, $4.00.) New York: Man's Way: A Preface to the Understanding of Human Society. This content downloaded from 62.122.79.90 on Sat, 23:38:26 PMĪll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions For more information about JSTOR, please contact and American Anthropological Association are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve andĮxtend access to American Anthropologist.
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