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Corporations and Society: The Social Anthropology of Collective Action / Edition 1
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Corporations and Society: The Social Anthropology of Collective Action / Edition 1
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In this book Smith puts forward an alternative framework, by developing the concept of the corporation. While most people nowadays think of corporations as large industrial enterprises, Smith employs the term in its older, Common Law sense of an established social unit. By studying the components of social life in this way, as discrete entities rather than as parts of a cohering system, corporation theory is able to treat social phenomena empirically and so avoid the unverifiable ideology-laden postulates of the traditional system-model.
is made up principally of key articles written by Smith over several decades. To these have been added three newly written, unpublished pieces of which the lasta penetrating essay on the Caribbeanis one of the longest in the book. Covering such wide-ranging topics as lineage systems, government, stratification, law, race relations and pluralism, these essays by a distinguished anthropologist show how extensively, and with what power of analysis, the theory can be applied.