Social Construction of Edmund Leach: Research on Social Anthropology

Abstract

The concept of social construction has received great attention from social anthropologists to the extent that it can be said that the concept of social construction reflects the approach of social anthropology and its treatment of the topics it studies, such as kinship and myth, the concept of social construction in the post-World War II period represented one of the main sources in the development of social anthropology, but it was dealt with in different meanings, and this difference was represented by three dissonant poles: Radcliffe Brown, the pioneer of constructivism on the one hand, and Claude Levi Strauss, the representative of French constructivism from On the other hand, the third and last pole is Edmund Leach, and this difference is due to the backgrounds that each of them affected and led to the production of the concept of social construction in a distinctive way, as well as to the nature of the approach that relies on it, and we will present the structural function of Radcliffe Brown so that it can be identified Although Leach differs from her on the one hand and because he belongs to this British school on the other hand.