REDFIELD, Robert

  • Era: 1897 - 1958
  • Location: United States
  • Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE

 

Robert Redfield was a cultural anthropologist who drew on Mexican fieldwork to interpret contemporary urban society in America. He developed the notion of the folk-urban continuum, indicating that small scale societies and subcultures do interlink with larger scale settings. Moral self-understanding is not just one or the other, but is a both-and condition.

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