Survivals and Social Origins
The Pioneers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2198566 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret T Hodgen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1933 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 583-594 |
| Publication date | 1933-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/216180 |
| OpenAlex | W1994903791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Tylor's doctrine of survivals purported to demonstrate that "the civilized mind bears traces of a past condition from which savages represent the least and civilized man the greatest advance." Formulated to restore the concept of development as an organizing principle in humanistic inquiry, Tylor, nevertheless, indicated that it could be used in two ways. Among Tylor's immediate followers, Andrew Lang employed it to arrive at a reconstruction of social origins, primarily religious, in terms of individual psychology; while George Laurence Gomme subjected survivals themselves to classification, and advocated their use for the recovery of the early periods of the dated historical record. But subsequent scholarship has ignored Gomme in favor of Lang, with the result that survivals have been employed, almost universally, in the psychological sense, for the study of the origin of the institution of religion
Art history · Doctrine · George (robot) · Humanism · Institution · Political science · Scholarship · Social institution · Social science · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |