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- 6.2
- = ==== Week 6: Care as capital after the Fordist social contract ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 1002: Anthropol... p relationships are sites for the accumulation of social capital. * People in The Flats have the ethos ... in Chicago in the 1900s (Addams 1902, 19). ===== Social capital in a migrant community in Boston ===== M... s: People who pursue opportunities to acquire new social roles, and hence new skills associated with each
- 6.1
- = ==== Week 6: Care as capital after the Fordist social contract ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 1002: Anthropol... nd recipient because both are embedded in a total social system. * Reciprocity feels like a rule you mu... == Do we agree that society has rules and being a social subject is following rules? ==== * Are there in fact social rules? Is this an accurate metaphor? * Yes, p
- 8.1
- these societies are, like all societies, based on social fictions. * The nation is a social fiction. We act **as if** there is a nation in a single territory. * A democratic system is based on a social fiction. We act **as if** there is a **popular wi... representation, laws, and court decisions. ===== Social solidarity is a feeling ===== For Durkheim, if s
- 2.2
- 2)? Everything of value would be **embedded** in social relationships. In many societies the **embeddedn... or productive wealth) are privately owned by one social class, the bourgeois class. * **Capitalism** is... see it. Some societies impose a specific set of social fictions: * valuable things can be private pro... y is based on a fiction. We need to be part of a social order But any one social order will involve lyin
- 7.1
- o about neoliberalism ===== The end of a Fordist social contract in affluent, capitalist economies is, in... e as a model for a society. People will still use social ties to patch the holes in a market-based society... d **side effects**. * People invest in another social fiction: A world of discrete nations. * These f... everyone in a nation, irrespective of location or social identity. * When reading news in a newspaper, o
- 8.2
- vate domain. ===== Secularism influences how the social sciences think about social change ===== Gellner and Anderson are two examples of how many scholars have... ociety. ==== Max Weber’s theories of society and social change ==== For [[:max_weber]], social change is a process of **rationalization**. * Rationalization
- 5.2
- pitalism. ===== Fordist production and a Fordist social contract ===== In the first half of the 20th cen... s. * The Fordist industrial model is also a new social contract, a new normative idea of people’s entitl... w-skill labor, creating opportunities for greater social mobility and wealth accumulation [mostly for whit... he profits of Fordist enterprise. * The Fordist social contract is also a specific “sexual contract” bet
- 4.1
- s? What is the line between natural existence and social membership in a community? * Everyone who has ever lived was already part of a larger social order, and had ties to other people when they wer... Which matters more? ===== Biological kinship and social kinship ===== Reproduction and birth are univers... * Genitor (is to) Pater (as) Biological (is to) Social * Genetrix (is to) Mater (as) Biological (is to
- 1.2
- ology ===== Is anthropology different from other social sciences? ===== Anthropology is not the solution... **ethnographic imagination**. To learn about any social situation or experience, **we have to un-learn our own preconceived ideas from our own social and cultural backgrounds.** We assume that - ... ve many different ways to define society and “the social,” they all have something in common: * There i
- 2024
- t nature]] | | |\\ | Aug 21 | 2. [[4.2|Kinship as social action]] | | |\\ | **5** | **Transnational famili... |\\ | **6** | **Care as capital after the Fordist social contract** | Mazelis (2017), chap. 5; Zaloom (201... rge Issues//, 4th ed., 329–44. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Fourth Edition). Londo... //Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology//, 4th ed., 345–66. Lon
- 4.2
- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== Kinship as social action ====== ===== Kinship as social action ===== ==== Week 4: Family matters ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH... ===== A lingering bias ===== Kinship is purely social system of categories, and need not have any conne... ons, but they still have them and they still have social salience, just like in rural, small-scale societi
- 13.1
- n society which claimed that you could understand social institutions by looking for their origins in the ... partly upon the peculiar inner development of the social group, and partly upon the foreign influences to ... ===== * As an expression of a tendency of the social whole toward equilibrium? * As an expression of... A. R. (1935) 1952. “On the Concept of Function in Social Science.” In //Structure and Function in Primitiv
- 9.2
- ependent partly upon the inner development of the social group, and partly upon the foreign influences to ... ecific racial groups * **racial projects**: the social means, formal and informal, by which racializatio... (1930) 1940. “Some Problems of Methodology in the Social Sciences.” In //Race, Language, and Culture//, 26... : The Problem of the Repugnant Cultural Other.” //Social Research// 58 (2): 373–93. http://www.jstor.org/s
- 9.1
- about being clean ===== “Clean” and “dirty” are social constructs, just like “sacred” and “profane.” ... the collective consciousness of each society, or “social facts” (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 60). * When a soc... e, then sacred things are impure and unclean. The social fact of the sacred and the social fact of cleanness reinforce each other. Mary Douglas argues that socie
- 1.1
- opology is a science of society, but unlike other social sciences, it tries to help people imagine what is like to live in a particular set of social conditions. **Anthropologists write ethnographie... at life is like for people who live in a specific social situation. ===== The biggest problems don’t have... d change the world with critique (Kritik): **“[A social reformer is] compelled to confess to himself that