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Outline for September 8 session

The social sciences and social life: Where does anthropology fit in?

I. What do the social sciences presume about the sociality of human life?

A. Three qualities of human social life: recursive, tentative, and tacit

B. Three dimensions of human action: meaning, value, and power

II. Anthropology among social sciences

A. Anthropology is the oblique social science

B. Anthropology is the situated social science

C. Anthropology is the slow social science

III. Office Ladies and Factory Women as fieldwork and ethnography