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A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
(17 Jan 1881 - 24 Oct 1955)
English social anthropologist who was a founder of British social anthropology—the study of social relations as integrated systems.
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Science Quotes by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1 quote)
I have been described on more than one occasion as belonging to something called the 'Functional School of Social Anthropology' and even as being its leader, or one of its leaders. This Functional School does not really exist; it is a myth invented by Professor Malinowski ... There is no place in natural science for 'schools' in this sense, and I regard social anthropology as a branch of natural science. ... I conceive of social anthropology as the theoretical natural science of human society, that is, the investigation of social phenomena by methods essentially similar to those used in the physical and biological sciences. I am quite willing to call the subject 'comparative sociology', if anyone so wishes.
— A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
In A. Kuper, Anthropologists and Anthropology: The Modern British School (1983), 36.
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- 17 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Radcliffe-Brown's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
