Leslie White is an American anthropologist known for his theories about cultural evolution and for his role in creating the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. White born in 1900 in Colorado and studied at Louisiana State University in 1919. In 1921 he transferred to Columbia University, the same university as Franz Boas.
White's views were formulated against the Boasians (Historic Particularism), because he postulated that the world must be divided into cultural, biological, and physical levels (super structural, structural and infrastructural) of phenomenon; the cultural are super structural and it was composed of three levels: the technological, the social organizational, and the ideological. The White’s evolutionist approach is diachronic, but inductive. Is for that reason that I like him so much; he raises a scientific approach in Social Science, he raises a theory generalizing and explanations for the social phenomenon, not just descriptions.
He was president of the American Anthropological Association (1964). And he died in 1975 in California.
Interesting man, you really made a good and concise written portrait here.. Keep the good work!
ResponderEliminarOh, you should have said: "White was born.." the was is quite important..
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Melinka,
ResponderEliminarYou’ve written an interesting post including all the things you were supposed to write about.
It’s just that I’m afraid you did a lot of ‘copy-and-paste’ at the beginning. Am I right? If yes, I advise you to try to write your posts in your own words. And don’t worry too much about mistakes, that’s what I’m around for, to help you out with them.
Anyway, I clearly notice some improvement. Good!
Please see corrected post:
Leslie White
Leslie White is an American anthropologist known for his theories about cultural evolution and for his role in creating the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. White WAS born in 1900 in Colorado and studied at Louisiana State University in 1919. In 1921 he transferred to Columbia University, the same university as Franz Boas.
White's views were formulated against the Boasians (Historic Particularism), because he postulated that the world must be divided into cultural, biological, and physical levels (super structural, structural and infrastructural) of phenomenon; the cultural LEVEL IS super structural and it was composed of three levels: the technological, the social organizational, and the ideological. (/) White’s evolutionist approach is diachronic, but inductive. IT is for that reason that I like him so much; he raises a scientific approach in Social ScienceS, he raises a theory WITH generaliSATIONS and explanations ABOUT the social phenomenon, not just descriptions.
He was president of the American Anthropological Association (1964). And he died in 1975 in California.