A study of informal finance finds that in East Africa, money moves in very different patterns depending on whether societies are structured around family units or age-based groups. People around the ...

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...

Derived from sociology, the concept of structure refers to influences and constraints on individual behavior. Elements of social structure include laws, policies, organizations, social categories ...

A Chinese research team has discovered that the earliest social structure in East Asia was a family-centered social organization model, a finding that challenges the previously assumed linear ...

Here, for the first time in English, is Camatte’s introduction to the 1974 edition of Bordiga’s, and the Italian Left’s, long study on the nature of the Russian revolution. Camatte provides a very ...

Papers presented at a symposium on social structure in Southeast Asia, held at the 9th Pacific Science Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, 1957. siris_sil_370976 ...