Historical Functionalism

Academic Work, Anthropology, Cultural Theory
May 172001

I will argue that historical particularism and structural functionalism are related in that they both concentrate on detail and pre-existing conditions. Historical particularism was a school of thought which concentrated on a holistic historical approach to the study of cultures and civilisations, from the development of their language to their physical appearance. Historical particularists believed in concentrated study of a people and their languages to gain a full understanding on their culture. Contiguously following was structural functionalism as a school of thought. Structural functionalism concentrated all of its resources into describing the material, psychological, physical, and social structures of a civilisation.

Morgan and Tylor Mirrors

Academic Work, Anthropology, Cultural Theory
May 032001

There are some obvious similarities between both the ethnographic works of Morgan and the theoretical works of Tylor, and the concepts presented by Marx and Spencer. This paper will attempt to bring forth the similarities between these two pairs of scholars by examining the premises used to support their arguments and the overall conclusions of their arguments.

On the Cultural Theories of Marx and Spencer

Academic Work, Anthropology, Cultural Theory
Apr 192001

While I was still attempting to discover what aspect of Marx and Spencer I was to concentrate on for this short essay, a friend noted that Marx and Spencer were polar opposites; at first glance, I took this as true. However, I started thinking some more about their differences and found very little different between the two when the concepts were abstracted from the arguments’ literal presentation. I will take a look at the conceptual differences between the two theories, and argue that either (a) Spencer was unclear about his version of utopia, or (b) they are similar theories leading towards the same type of utopian endpoint.

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