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- 7.1
- cieties end up being the same. * Not all kinds of social change are progress. By the end of this week, I ... with Emile Durkheim, he is credited with some of social science's main ideas. Weber's approach to social forms starts from the view that there are different typ... the way that anthropologists do. His views about social change are ethnocentric. He assumed that all soci
- 13.1
- ram October 29, 2018 ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au Social Sciences Building 410 (A02) Available at http://... ideas and values which people acquire from their social environment. It shapes how they see, think, and a... ves in a cultural context, we also recognize that social rules, social institutions, and cultural values can act on the world: * **[[:society|Society]] and soci
- 1.2
- l perspective are: * **[[:society|Society]] and social forces are real.** Social forces determine how individuals think, act and cooperate with each other. To u... we must look at how their life fits into a larger social context as part of a system. * **Societies are not fixed or inflexible.** Social rules are not simply constraints on individual ch
- further_information_about_this_unit
- mate understanding of people's experiences of the social worlds they inhabit. This unit shows the importan... gy as a distinct way of thinking about societies, social change, and cultural differences. We examine seve... Know what makes anthropology different from other social sciences. * Understand the key concepts with which anthropologists define society, social form, and social change. * Understand how anthro
- 1.1
- f its forms and so it has had to be very diverse. Social and cultural anthropology is one branch of anthro... avior by looking at it in context, especially the social and cultural forces which affect how people think... ou have to find people. ## What are the biggest social problems today? ## Take a minute to get to know... l perspective are: * **[[:society|Society]] and social forces are real.** Social forces determine how in
- 5.1
- o its demise. He argued that capitalism, like any social system, is defined by its contradictions. The con... Nevada Certain kinds of value remain embedded in social relationships while other kinds are able to be co... idual self-interest and the collective force of a social norm, like reciprocity, is one example of dichoto... gnized for this. ## The breakdown of the Fordist social contract ## * Fordism is a method of organizing
- 2.2
- actice of giving and receiving is a foundation of social life and social order in many communities. I would even say that it is part of all communities, even if t... urself. It holds the tribe together. It's the big social event. On a more general level, Moka is a system,... y if not all transactions ## Western culture and social reality ## ### Western culture ### * Western cu
- 5.2
- Nevada Certain kinds of value remain embedded in social relationships while other kinds are able to be co... idual self-interest and the collective force of a social norm, like reciprocity, is one example of dichoto... gnized for this. ## The breakdown of the Fordist social contract ## * Fordism is a method of organizing production, but Fordism also sustained a social contract between the ruling class and society: Hi
- 4.0
- of inversion]]**: black is white, right is wrong, social hierarchies turned upside down, violins played in... idges or borders? ## - **Deterritorialization**: Social systems are not limited to one specific place. ... alization**: Global commodity chains create new social systems, new "spaces," in which people live their... ntly, both aspects show that we need to grasp the social rules and institutions in order to understand how
- reading_list
- hy of Things: Commoditization as Process.” In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspecti... will discuss in class. Cheater, Angela P. 2003. Social Anthropology: An Alternative Introduction. 2nd ed... 1. Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. 2nd ed. London: Pluto Press. Just, Peter. 2000. Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduct
- welcome_to_anthropology
- to anthropology! Anthropology is unlike any other social science. It is part science, and part art. Anthropologists wish to observe human beings and their social patterns, but we also want to step into the shoes... le everywhere. We can say that the most important social problems are global in nature. If that's true, th... ou learn to question everything you thought you knew about society and social change. {{page>1002guide}}
- 6.1
- apitalist economies also tend to define the basic social institution of the family as a nuclear household,... there is a gender dimension to Western capitalist social structure. Surprise!! The capitalist nuclear fa... the household. ## The breakdown of the Fordist social contract * Fordism is a method of organizing production, but Fordism also sustained a social contract between the ruling class and society: Hi
- 8.1
- ll eventually end up at the same destination. * Social change cannot be measured on a single, absolute s... * The person as a wage laborer * The person as a social actor Let's examine directly the idea all these ... dividual is natural, and hence a precondition for social action. It is natural for an actor to have a uniq... morality is distinct from obligations entailed in social relationships * God cares for human beings as ind
- 3.2
- nd selling possible - [[:Karl Marx]] provides a social theory of capitalism and its rules - Capitalism... o classes, and people of each class play distinct social roles - Capitalism is contradictory. It alienat... t owners, but it also needs people to belong to a social whole based on interdependence and reciprocity.
- 4.1
- hic cases provide evidence for the claim that the social force of reciprocity and interdependence determin... means of production are privately owned by one social class. * **Capitalism** is a system in which nobo... esh work themselves to death for minimal wages. * Social systems and the global systems are defined by the