Ernest Gellner

(noun)

Ernest André Gellner (1925 – 1995) was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist. Gellner fought all his life—in his writing, his teaching, and through his political activism—against what he saw as closed systems of thought, particularly communism, psychoanalysis, relativism, and the dictatorship of the free market.

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  • High and Low Culture

    • High culture became an important concept in political theory on nationalism for writers such as Ernest Renan and Ernest Gellner , who saw it as a necessary component of a healthy national identity.
    • Gellner's concept of a high culture extended beyond the arts; he used it to distinguish between different cultures (rather than within a culture), contrasting high cultures with simpler, agrarian low cultures.
    • Ernest André Gellner (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist.

  • The Interactionist Perspective

    • Park and fellow sociologist Ernest Burgess suggested that cities were governed by many of the same forces of Darwinian evolution evident in ecosystems.

  • The Structure of Cities

    • The concentric ring model was postulated in 1924 by sociologist Ernest Burgess, based on his observations of Chicago .