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| It leads them to a set of corollaries about social systems: | It leads them to a set of corollaries about social systems: | ||
| - | * Societies, social systems, and the collective existence of people are examples of a total phenomenon. They are totalities or wholes which are more than the sum of the parts that make them up. | + | |
| - | * Individual facts and social facts are fundamentally different. There’s a fundamental opposition between that which pertains to individual conscious experience on the one hand and social reality on the other. | + | |
| - | * Collective things like the norms of a society have their own logic. It’s the logic of the mail sorting machine. Individual experiences and actions have a completely different logic. | + | * Collective things like **the norms of a society have their own logic**. It’s the logic of the mail sorting machine. Individual experiences and actions have a completely different logic. |
| * The logic of collective facts is also a logic that we can only see in synchronic time, a freeze frame where everything exists simultaneously and we can see the connections among them. | * The logic of collective facts is also a logic that we can only see in synchronic time, a freeze frame where everything exists simultaneously and we can see the connections among them. | ||
| * Individual behaviors come from wants, desires, choices, and preferences. This is intuitively real and pertains to diachronic time, the time of cause and effect. | * Individual behaviors come from wants, desires, choices, and preferences. This is intuitively real and pertains to diachronic time, the time of cause and effect. | ||
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| ===== Anthropology should take place in the world(-system) ===== | ===== Anthropology should take place in the world(-system) ===== | ||
| - | **Immanuel Wallerstein (1974) theorizes what he calls the capitalist world-system.** | + | ### Immanuel Wallerstein (1974) theorizes what he calls the capitalist world-system. |
| * The global system of capitalism is based on a network of unequal exchanges between core and periphery. | * The global system of capitalism is based on a network of unequal exchanges between core and periphery. | ||
| * The origins of the unequal exchange between core and periphery begin in the era of European expansion. | * The origins of the unequal exchange between core and periphery begin in the era of European expansion. | ||
| - | **Wolf applies Wallerstein’s framework, concluding that:** | + | ### Wolf applies Wallerstein’s framework, concluding that: |
| * all societies are products of historical changes. They are never static. | * all societies are products of historical changes. They are never static. | ||
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| You may have heard about dialectic change as a three-step process. This is a simplification that can be a little misleading since it emphasizes distinct stages over flux itself (Mueller 1958). | You may have heard about dialectic change as a three-step process. This is a simplification that can be a little misleading since it emphasizes distinct stages over flux itself (Mueller 1958). | ||
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| ===== Dialectic processes in society at large ===== | ===== Dialectic processes in society at large ===== | ||
| - | **Private property contains its own opposite.** | + | ### Private property contains its own opposite. |
| * If I own something, it means you don’t. | * If I own something, it means you don’t. | ||
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| * A society based on owners of capital and nonowners of that same capital is a society of two interdependent classes at war with each other. | * A society based on owners of capital and nonowners of that same capital is a society of two interdependent classes at war with each other. | ||
| - | **Colonialism contains its own opposite** | + | ### Colonialism contains its own opposite. |
| * Colonization is the process by which one society expands into a new territory by setting up a new settlement. | * Colonization is the process by which one society expands into a new territory by setting up a new settlement. | ||
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| * Colonialism is, then, two contradictory realities at once, and it is neither of them. | * Colonialism is, then, two contradictory realities at once, and it is neither of them. | ||
| * Colonialism is, as Ryan says, “a system of racial governance.” It creates a rigidly stratified society in which a colonizing stratum dominates a subordinate, | * Colonialism is, as Ryan says, “a system of racial governance.” It creates a rigidly stratified society in which a colonizing stratum dominates a subordinate, | ||
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| ===== Encountering Fiji: History Etched in Everyday Life ===== | ===== Encountering Fiji: History Etched in Everyday Life ===== | ||
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