In contrast to cultural anthropology, culture and its continuity ( including narratives, rituals, and symbolic behavior associated with them ) have been traditionally seen more as the dependent'variable'( cf . " explanandum " ) by social anthropology, embedded in its historical and social context, including its diversity of positions and perspectives, ambiguities, conflicts, and contradictions of explanans " ).
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Although Mandel's profit theory was enormously more complex than Grossman's profit theory, this complexity itself became problematic : there were so many interacting " semi-autonomous variables " in Mandel's theory, that observable empirical trends could be attributed to any number of interacting variables; this meant that no particular result " necessarily " followed from the theory, and that the explanans ( that which explains ) became confused with the explanandum ( that which has to be explained ).
