Ethnologie und Soziologie: Abgrenzungsprobleme und Identitätssymbole
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 122.1997:131-141
Anthropology and sociology: problems of dissociation and symbols of identity
##This paper denies a fundamental difference between anthropology and sociology. The basic object of sociology, "society", is as vague as "people" or as "mankind", on which anthropology is believed to focus. The main difference between both disciplines is a historical-social one; they have evolved since the late 18th century as two different scholarly communities, dealing with modern industrial society on the one hand and pre-industrial ones on the other. The "crisis of anthropology" is caused by the modernization of pre-industrial societies. In this quandary anthropology tries to save its identity by sacralizing one particular method, fieldwork. This is difficult to justify in terms of the philosophy of science, but the two different traditions are still hard to die and to merge.##
Keywords: anthropology and sociology, sociology and anthropology, crisis of anthropology, fieldwork
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