A. R. Radcliffe-Brown76 definitions
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Accountability (n.) is, in modern western civilization, a sin usually regarded as necessary. A voluntary action or thought, in many simple societies an involuntary action may fall within the given definition of sin. -for example leprosy among the hebrews . ..
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The Anthropologist (n.) is not concerned, as an anthropologist, with whether such things as slavery or cabalism, or the institutions of the US or Russia, are or are not right, good, reasonable, or just.
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Anthropology (n.) is a level of analysis where there is no room for judgement as to whether things such as slavery or cabalism, or the institutions of the US or Russia, are or are not right, good, reasonable, or just.
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Anthropology (n.) is a so-called nomothetic inquiry, aiming to arrive at general propositions or theoretical statements. It contrasts with ethnography, which is a so-called idiographic inquiry, aimed at documenting the particular facts of past and present lives.
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Anthropology (n.) is an analytic vantage such that say, the economic machinery of a society appears in 'quite a new light' if it is studied in relation to the social structure. The exchange of goods (z.B. The potlatch) was the machinery for maintaining a social structure of lineages, clans and moieties.
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Anthropology (n.) is grounded in the quite impossible view that all customs and institutions of any society are right and good and that all socially accepted beliefs are true.
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Anthropology (n.) is tasked with formulating laws of statics and laws of dynamics. Laws of statics formulate and validate statements about the conditions of existence of social systems. Laws of dynamics are concerned with the regularities that are observable in social change.
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Anthropology (n.) is the study of discoverable regularities while ethnology is the reconstruction of history.
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Anthropology (n.) is the study of the human being as person (or complex of social relations (a citizen of england, a husband, a father, a bricklayer) rather than, say, as a biological organism.
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Comparative sociology (n.) is another name for structural-functionalism.
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Comparison (n.) is comparison of structural form.
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Cultural contact (n.) is a fantastic reification. There is contact, but it is not between the abstraction of european culture and the abstraction of african tribe to form a third abstraction, rather, contact is between human beings, european and african, and it takes place within a definite structural arrangement.
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Culture (n.) is synonymous with socialization. It is a way of learning to live in a society.
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Ethnography (n.) is a kind of inquiry that aims to describe specific instances and particular facts of past and present lives. It contrasts with 'anthropology' which is after more general laws.
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Ethnography (n.) is an idiographic inquiry, aimed at documenting the particular facts of past and present lives. It contrasts with anthropology, which is a nomothetic inquiry aiming to arrive at general propositions or theoretical statements.
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Expression (n.) more firmly fixes one in their sentiments.
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Family (n.) is the basic cell of the social order.