Claude Lèvi-Strauss was one of the most influential French ethnologist and anthropologist of the 20th century, and the center of the school of structuralist thinking. His thoughts have consequences on the sociology, anthropology, and the social sciences in general.
He was born in Belgium at 1908, but all his childhood passed in Paris. Lévi-Strauss studied law and philosophy in La Sorbonne, but after a while dropped law. In 1935, he and his wife went to Brazil, to study the natives cultures and as a visitor professor of sociology. At the second world war, he had to live in New York, where met Jakobson, and get a lot of influence of linguistics methodology. He died 100 years old, in 2009.
One of the most important influences of Levi-Strauss, is about the way to study the "primitive" cultures, by this way, he contributed in the figth against the etnocentrism. Other influence is the use of the phonology in the social sciences as an methodological tool.
I think that the job of Levi-Strauss is incomparable, because of that, much people says he is the most important social scientist of the XX century, in some ways I agree with that people. Althought his proposals can be in discussion, it's undeniable that are very useful for we, the beginners in the social sciences, also I think his writings are very fun, I enjoy a lot reading them.
He was born in Belgium at 1908, but all his childhood passed in Paris. Lévi-Strauss studied law and philosophy in La Sorbonne, but after a while dropped law. In 1935, he and his wife went to Brazil, to study the natives cultures and as a visitor professor of sociology. At the second world war, he had to live in New York, where met Jakobson, and get a lot of influence of linguistics methodology. He died 100 years old, in 2009.
One of the most important influences of Levi-Strauss, is about the way to study the "primitive" cultures, by this way, he contributed in the figth against the etnocentrism. Other influence is the use of the phonology in the social sciences as an methodological tool.
I think that the job of Levi-Strauss is incomparable, because of that, much people says he is the most important social scientist of the XX century, in some ways I agree with that people. Althought his proposals can be in discussion, it's undeniable that are very useful for we, the beginners in the social sciences, also I think his writings are very fun, I enjoy a lot reading them.
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