Levi-Strauss: Structuralism and Sociological Theory

What Is The Significance Of Structuralism For Social Science? How Original Is Lévi-strauss' Contribution To Social Theory? Is He Marxist? Though Structuralism, And Its Leading Representative Lévi-strauss, Are Central To Sociology, Anthropology And Psychology, The Complexity Of His Work And The Obscurity Of His Commentators Have Often Proved A Barrier To Understanding. Now For The First Time, Dr Badcock Provides A Jargon-free Assessment Of Lévi-strauss' Place In The Tradition Of French Sociological Thought – Particularly To Predecessors Such As Comte, Durkheim And Mauss – Discusses His Relationship To Marx, Sartre, Freud And Talcott Parsons And Provides A Concise, Non-technical Account Of His Complex Ideas On Kinship, Totenism And Myth.