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- Title
FOLKLORE AND SOCIOLOGY.
- Authors
Thompson, Kenneth
- Abstract
The article explores the relation between academic disciplines and of disciplines to their social context. Even those sociologists who are aware of the once closer relations between sociology/social anthropology and Folklore tend to assume that current distant relations are due to the evaporation of folklore itself from urban-industrial society. Sociologists with an interest in folklore are most likely to be found working in fields which emphasize the comparative analysis of "underdeveloped" and "developed" societies, and there has been a strong tendency for them to eliminates folklore. The almost moribund state of folklore studies in Great Britain might seem to confirm their assumption were it not for the fact that the few studies carried out on folklore in urban Britain show that it is far from dead or dying. And in the United States of America, the flourishing academic discipline of Folklore has no difficulty in discovering a flourishing crop of urban folklore.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; UNITED States; NATIONAL socialism &; folklore; ETHNOLOGY; URBAN folklore; HUMANITIES; SOCIAL scientists
- Publication
Sociological Review, 1980, Vol 28, Issue 2, p249
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954X.1980.tb00365.x