Radcliffe-Brown

(noun)

A British social anthropologist from the early twentieth century who contributed to the development of the theory of structural-functionalism.

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Examples of Radcliffe-Brown in the following topics:

  • The Functionalist Perspective

    • Radcliffe-Brown proposed that most stateless, "primitive" societies that lack strong centralized institutions are based on an association of corporate-descent groups.

  • Structural-Functionalism

    • Durkheim's strongly sociological perspective of society was continued by Radcliffe-Brown.
    • Following Auguste Comte, Radcliffe-Brown believed that the social constituted a separate level of reality distinct from both the biological and the inorganic (here non-living).

  • Education and Unequal Treatment in the Classroom

    • The most famous women's colleges in the United States were known as the Seven Sisters colleges and included Mount Holyoke College, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Smith College, Radcliffe College, Bryn Mawr College, and Barnard College.
    • Today, five still operate as women's-only colleges, Radcliffe no longer accepts students, and Vassar is coeducational.

  • What Can Sociology Tell Us?

    • society is constantly changing, making it difficult for sociologists to maintain current understandings; in fact, society might even change as a result of sociological investigation (for instance, sociologists testified in the Brown v.

  • Cultural Universals

    • Among the cultural universals listed by Donald Brown (1991) are abstract speech, figurative speech and metaphors, antonyms and synonyms, and units of time.
    • Among the cultural universals listed by Donald Brown, some of these were investigated by Franz Boas.

  • Prejudice

    • Prejudice is a negative attitude and feeling toward an individual based solely on one’s membership in a particular social group (Allport, 1954; Brown, 2010).

  • Social Definition of Race

    • The subtypes of the Mongoloid race are shown in yellow and orange tones, those of the Europid race in light and medium grayish green-cyan tones, and those of the Negroid race in brown tones.

  • The Hidden Curriculum

  • Institutional Prejudice or Discrimination

    • This ruling was later rescinded in 1954 by the Brown vs.

  • Social Construct or Biological Lineage?

    • The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics classifies the Brazilian population in five categories: white, black, pardo or (brown), yellow, and Indigenous, based on skin color as given by the individual being interviewed in the census.
    • Pardo or Brown (42.3%): usually a Multiracial Brazilian of mixed-race features who considers himself or herself to be "Pardo".
    • Of particular interest to the discussion of race in this chapter is the fact that there is a racial classification that falls between "white" and "black": "pardo" or "brown. " That Brazilians have more racial classifications than do people in the United States illustrates the socially constructed nature of race.