Max GluckmanThinkers

Comparison is a tool operating between empirical units which are neither discrete nor self-evident, but as units which emerge within fuzzy and volatile boundaries, at the intersection of wider and more encompassing processes.

Conflict is necessary in smaller sub-systems in order to constitute systems.

A Multiplex society is a simple society in which every relationship includes many levels and aspects. One's cousin is also one's co-worker, neighbor, teacher, chief, and father-in-law.

Rebellion is an act that facilitates catharsis, both in the sense of purging antisocial emotions and, apparently, purifying socially desirable ones.

Rebellion works to sustain the social order by virtue of a psychologically efficacious cultural mechanism.

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Science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Society's normal state is conflict and contradiction.