This book is composed of contributions by participants in the weekly seminar of Harvard’s long-standing program in clinically relevant medical anthropology, and will stand as a mark of the program’s stature as a prime intellectual locus in which anthropological reflection on illness and suffering has generated results of profound significance for contemporary social thought. The volume is a wid...

Mainstream psychology can often be criticized for turning the liberal concerns of psychologists into conservative practices focusing on the individual. In the United Kingdom, the discursive turn in social psychology has been marked by an audacious body of work critical of cognitive attempts to theorize the social. A particular psychodiscursive strand has emerged, which combines discourse analys...

socio-political metatheories based on ontological and epistemological foundations, could be devided to different objectivist and subjectivist fronts. according to such a devide, different interpretation of individual-society and agent-structure could be renderd. in contrast,critical metatheories that seek to transcend the contradiction between objectivity-subjectivity in the individual-society ...

Subjective language contains information about private states. The goal of subjective language identification is to identify that a private state is expressed, without considering its polarity or specific emotion. A component of word meaning, "Personal Sense", has clear potential in the field of subjective language identification, as it reflects a meaning of words in terms of unique personal ex...