Historical particularism, the approach of Franz Boas, can be characterized as
A) an attempt to discover laws of general evolutionary processes.
B) mainly dependent upon unsystematically collected and unverified information.
C) research effort focused on the relationship between individual action and custom.
D) a direct outgrowth and refinement of nineteenth century evolutionism.
E) mainly concerned with abstraction and theory formation.
C
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