BRIEF OF THEORIES GIVEN BY C. LEVI-STRAUSS, BRONISLAW K. MALINOWSKI & A.R. RADCLIFFE BROWN Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Louis Althusser, Participant Observation, Unconscious Mind

• School: Punjabi University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: BRIEF OF THEORIES GIVEN BY C. LEVI-STRAUSS, BRONISLAW K. MALINOWSKI & A.R. RADCLIFFE BROWN

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Influence of durkheim: objective study, organic solidarity. Structure refers to an arrangement of parts or components related to one another in some sort of larger unity. in social structure the basic elements are human beings or persons involved in social life. The arrangement of persons in relation to each other is the social structure. For rcbrown, structure is not an abstraction but an empirical reality. It is an empirically observable reality of arrangement or relationships of the members of a society. A most important structural feature is the arrangement of people into dyadic relationships or person-to-person relationships. A social structure becomes apparent during inter-group interactions, and interpersonal interactions. Institutions define for a person how he or she is expected to behave, and also how he or she may expect others to behave . Social structure therefore has to be described in terms of the institutions, which regulate the relationship between persons or groups.