Levi-Strauss (RLE Social Theory)

<p>What is the significance of Structuralism for social science? How original is Lévi-Strauss' contribution to social theory? Is he Marxist? Though Structuralism and its leading representative Lévi-Strauss are central to sociology anthropology and psychology the complexity of his work and the obscurity of his commentators have often proved a barrier to understanding. Now for the first time Dr Badcock provides a jargon-free assessment of Lévi-Strauss' place in the tradition of French sociological thought – particularly to predecessors such as Comte Durkheim and Mauss – discusses his relationship to Marx Sartre Freud and Talcott Parsons and provides a concise non-technical account of his complex ideas on kinship totenism and myth.</p>