The Retreat of the Social
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The Retreat of the Social

The Rise and Rise of Reductionism

Bruce Kapferer, Bruce Kapferer

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The Retreat of the Social

The Rise and Rise of Reductionism

Bruce Kapferer, Bruce Kapferer

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The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value.

The essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social.

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Year
2005
ISBN
9781782387190
T
HE
R
ELOCATION
OF
THE
S
OCIAL
AND
THE
R
ETRENCHMENT
OF
THE
E
LITES
Jonathan 
Friedman
This 
is 
an 
age 
of 
regression, 
the 
amplification 
of 
class
relations 
and 
their 
polarization, 
the 
withdrawal 
of 
the
new 
political 
classes 
into 
luxurious 
lives 
along 
with 
other
dominant 
classes, 
while 
the 
declining 
lower 
end 
of 
the
social 
world 
recedes 
into 
poverty 
and 
chaos. 
Overstated
as 
description, 
perhaps, 
but 
it 
does, 
suggest, 
situate
current 
trends.
One 
Generation’s 
Experience
The 
social 
has 
not 
disappeared, 
not 
by 
any 
means, 
but 
it
has 
become 
fragmented 
and 
redistributed 
into 
smaller
worlds 
of 
sociality. 
Retreat 
as 
intentional 
practice 
occurs 
as
result 
of 
the 
failure 
of 
the 
larger 
social 
arena. 
Let 
us 
con-
sider 
the 
parameters 
of 
this 
process 
with 
respect 
to 
elites,
middle 
classes 
and 
minorities, 
and 
proletarian 
and 
sub-
proletarian 
populations. 
One 
might 
rightly 
ask 
to 
what

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