- Structure and Dynamics eJournal of the Anthropological and Related Sciences
"Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences" is an
open access , free,peer reviewed journal published by the eScholarship Repository at theUniversity of California and is jointly supported by the [http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/socdyn/ Social Dynamics and Complexity] Group within the [http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/ Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences] and by the Langson Library at theUniversity of California, Irvine . Its content is indexed at [http://www.doaj.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=15543374&volume=1&issue=1&date=2005 DOAJ] , theDirectory of Open Access Journals .Structure and dynamics is the name of a subfield in the
social sciences , used particularly insocial anthropology andsociology , which connotes that while structure is an important concept in social theory, contemporary social theory has long since moved beyondstructural functionalism , which was identified withRadcliffe-Brown andParsons . It is also an important subfield in the complexity sciences.Electronic Publication and No Subscriptions
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List of social science journals#Anthropology
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