{"product_id":"the-retreat-of-the-social-the-rise-and-rise-of-reductionism-9781845451752","title":"The Retreat of the Social: The Rise and Rise of Reductionism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bruce Kapferer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47613480370327,"sku":"9781845451752","price":1053.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781845451752.webp?v=1775085529","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-retreat-of-the-social-the-rise-and-rise-of-reductionism-9781845451752","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}