Sir John Rankine Goody was an English social anthropologist.
10 Facts About Jack Goody
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Jack Goody was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984.
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Jack Goody grew up in Welwyn Garden City and St Albans, where he attended St Albans School.
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Jack Goody officially relinquished his commission on 19 January 1952.
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Jack Goody has pioneered the comparative anthropology of literacy, attempting to gauge the preconditions and effects of writing as a technology.
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Jack Goody published about the history of the family and the anthropology of inheritance.
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In 1976, Jack Goody was elected Fellow of the British Academy.
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Jack Goody was an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.
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Jack Goody explained social structure and social change primarily in terms of three major factors.
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Jack Goody associated the beginnings of writing with the task of managing surplus and, in a paper with Ian Watt, he advanced the argument that the rise of science and philosophy in classical Greece depended on the invention of the alphabet.