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Vertical/compatible integration versus analogizing with biology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2006

Jerome H. Barkow
Jerome H. Barkow*
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Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P9, Canadahttp://is.dal.ca/~barkow/home.htm
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Abstract:

Vertical/compatible theoretical integration provides an alternative way of unifying sociocultural anthropology and related disciplines. It involves analyzing theoretical statements for their implicit and explicit assumptions at multiple levels of analysis and then determining whether these assumptions are compatible with consensus in the relevant disciplines (e.g., does the sociological theory include an assumption at odds with consensus psychology?). Incompatibilities indicate a need for further research. This approach is much more likely to salvage the bulk of humanities-oriented anthropology than is that of the authors.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2006 , pp. 348 - 349
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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