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londonang

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Manchester anthropologist Max Gluckman made conflict an important part of his analysis, distancing himself somewhat from Panglossian functionalism, the tendency to see things as functioning not just to maintain the system but to do so in the most optimal way possible.
 
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Franz Boas's famous biological studies of European immigrants to the United States revealed and measured phenotypical plasticity, showing that the environment and cultural forces could change human biology.
 
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