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Analyze scientific theory of culture. Will the crisis in culture in the contemporary society facilitate the emergence of new man?

  • UPSC 1984
  • Systems of Kinship

Bronisław Malinowski's A Scientific Theory of Culture (published posthumously, 1944) tried to turn his Trobriand fieldwork into a general, testable theory. Culture, he wrote, is "a vast apparatus, partly material, partly human and partly spiritual" by which people cope with concrete problems. It exists to satisfy human needs, and every element must be explained by…

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