The Human Being in Social and Cosmic Orders. Categories of Traditional Culture and the Problems of Contemporary Buryat Identity – EBOOK

The matter of social order was developed as a rule in macro-theories such as functionalism or Marxism, which saw the order as constructed by shared norms, values, distribution of labour, power or property. The book attempts to trace the ideas of social order in the Buryat culture and its metaphoric structure using the interpretivist approach as shared sense-making practices. The fieldwork data and analysis of various literature form a grounded theory of social order that could contribute to existing sociological and anthropological perspectives.

The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Poland license (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode).

Keywords: social order, cosmic order, human being, social thought, Buryat-Mongols.

PhD Ayur Zhanaev – PhD in Sociology, assistant professor at the Department of Culturally Integrated Legal and Social Studies in the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw.