Man in Society

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The Doubleday Pictorial Library of MAN IN SOCIETY PATTERNS OF HUMÁN ORGANIZATION Prepared under the editorial supervision of Dr. Mary Douglas, Sir Gerald Barry, Dr. J. Bronowski, James Fisher, and Sir Julián Huxley, The Doubleday Pictorial Library of Man in Society is the sixth volume in a library of knowledge for the family. It is produced by an international team of writers, artists, and editors in the belief that knowledge of our own patterns of organization, customs, beliefs, and habits will make it easier for us to realize our hopes for the future. We who live in the West in the second half of the twentieth century are the inheritors of a civilization whose scale is vaster than our forefathers could ever have imagined. And the rate of our continuing material advance surprises even ourselves. It alsó faces us with new and complex problems. If we are to master those problems, we need the new understanding of our society we can learn through the studies of complex societies -... Tovább

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The Doubleday Pictorial Library of MAN IN SOCIETY PATTERNS OF HUMÁN ORGANIZATION Prepared under the editorial supervision of Dr. Mary Douglas, Sir Gerald Barry, Dr. J. Bronowski, James Fisher, and Sir Julián Huxley, The Doubleday Pictorial Library of Man in Society is the sixth volume in a library of knowledge for the family. It is produced by an international team of writers, artists, and editors in the belief that knowledge of our own patterns of organization, customs, beliefs, and habits will make it easier for us to realize our hopes for the future. We who live in the West in the second half of the twentieth century are the inheritors of a civilization whose scale is vaster than our forefathers could ever have imagined. And the rate of our continuing material advance surprises even ourselves. It alsó faces us with new and complex problems. If we are to master those problems, we need the new understanding of our society we can learn through the studies of complex societies - sociology - and of simple societies - anthropology. Our major long-term problem is how to spread our wealth and technical knowledge to the underdeveloped countries. Ne ver before have the contrasts between nation and nation been so stark. While somé people face the problems of automation, others still live as men lived in prehistoric ages. But every country is committed to development programs that will wipe out such inequalities. Vissza