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Mary Douglas

Mary Douglas

Dame Mary Douglas, DBE, FBA (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropology.

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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Tags: Forget, Tell, Each
Mary Douglas

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

Tags: Real, Between, Difficult
Mary Douglas

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

Tags: Strong, Down, Wealth
Mary Douglas

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Tags: Bad, Sure, Inequality
Mary Douglas

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Tags: Stupid, Trying, Look
Mary Douglas

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

Tags: Music, Love, Religion
Mary Douglas

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

Tags: Religious, Partly
Mary Douglas

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Tags: Done, Worry, Private
Mary Douglas

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Tags: Society, Become, Difficult
Mary Douglas

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Tags: God, Good, Society
Mary Douglas

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