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The dissolution of “classical ethnoscience”
Author(s) -
Murray Stephen O.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198204)18:2<163::aid-jhbs2300180206>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - elite , competitor analysis , resistance (ecology) , sociology , political science , management , law , economics , biology , politics , ecology
„Ethnoscience” in the early 1960s provides a prototypical case of an elite specialty. With easy access to recognition, there was only a loose confederation, not at all the kind of tightly knit social network with a garrison worldview typifying revolutionary groups. Elite specialities both grow and dissolve more rapidly than revolutionary groups; they require less commitment, and concomitantly offer less resistance to competitors. Ethnoscience lacked a single leader and was never monolithic.