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- 7.1 @1002:2018
- are the main differences between rural and urban societies? ## What is a contemporary society? ## This cla... of conjuncture of cultures and orders. * Fluid. Societies are produced through their interactions with othe... e-world * Defined by unintended side-effects. All societies are changing all the time, but change goes in dif... than one kind of modernity. Specifically, * All societies change, but not all societies end up being the sa
- religion_and_economy
- cept of the social body. Durkheim argues that all societies, large and small, must declare something to be sa... cholars assumed that for most so-called primitive societies, religious, moral and ritual behavior were functi... wn work was always for the benefit of others. All societies in some way derive from this originary condition,... flections of it. Mauss argued then, that for most societies, and throughout human history, economic activity
- 3 @2700:2021
- u appeals to new information about the indigenous societies of the New World to support his conception of the... closer to nature than Europeans, and live in just societies (Rousseau [1755] 1964, 132–33, 178–79). Question... nation of the world found in European and Western societies. They provide an image which is the dichotomous o... The history of Europe and the histories of other societies are one ===== Immanuel Wallerstein (1974) theori
- modernity
- 2018)]]. Pinker suggests that over history, human societies have become more peaceful. He assumes that all societies develop over time, which is true, but that this dev... he trap of modernism" because it assumes that all societies are reaching toward the same thing, modernity. In fact, they aren't. All societies change, but no two societies end up in the same p
- 3 @2700:2025
- a set of corollaries about social systems: * **Societies, social systems, and the collective existence of ... closer to nature than Europeans, and live in just societies (Rousseau [1755] 1964, 132–33, 178–79). * According to Montesquieu, societies of the East are despotic and societies of the West are fair and just. (Montesquieu [1748] 1777, 356) * E
- 4 @2700:2022
- two fundamental things * They **agree** that societies are not static, and that each society is a produc... other major issues * They **disagree** on how societies change. * They **disagree** on the nature of ... The world is a mosaic of different cultures. * Societies of the world are part of a stratified global syst... tructures of cultural domination within and among societies in favor of the “mosaic of cultures” view (or the
- 4 @2700:2021
- two fundamental things * They **agree** that societies are not static, and that each society is a produc... other major issues * They **disagree** on how societies change. * They **disagree** on the nature of ... The world is a mosaic of different cultures. * Societies of the world are part of a stratified global syst... tructures of cultural domination within and among societies in favor of the “mosaic of cultures” view (or the
- 4.2 @1002:2024
- ===== Lévi-Strauss ([1949] 1969) notes that all societies prohibit “incest” (marriage of relatives), but wh... eople to have kinship classifications? ==== Many societies also have this kind of bias when they describe th... ple talk about kinship ===== In fact, many other societies have forms of kinship that have nothing to do wit... 1, 108–9; see also O’Brien 1977; Krige 1974). * Societies like Kawelka consist of small groups of people wh
- 3 @2700:2022
- u appeals to new information about the indigenous societies of the New World to support his conception of the... closer to nature than Europeans, and live in just societies (Rousseau [1755] 1964, 132–33, 178–79). Question... The history of Europe and the histories of other societies are one ===== Immanuel Wallerstein (1974) theori... s as we mostly know them are products of European societies, and are blind to the global structure of dominat
- max_weber
- the most for the least amount of effort. Whole societies can be defined by the types of social actions one... rly controversial for several reasons. Weber sees societies as falling on a scale of progress. With the passage of time, societies move from a traditional orientation and a traditi... to question this view of rural and kinship-based societies as too simple. ## Modernity and rationalization
- lewis_henry_morgan
- from primitive to civilized. He proposed that all societies could be classified according to stages of social evolution which all societies had to pass, starting in primitive state, moving ... ip in the society. In the period of civilization, societies exhibited a differentiation between the instituti... ionary thesis is easy to criticize in retrospect. Societies do not follow the same path of change, and contem
- community
- related over many generations. These are durable societies just like what we might expect to find in human societies. Yet, for Levi-Strauss, a human society is different. He argues that all human societies impose the same kind of rule on people, a prohibi... . What counts as incest does not matter. For some societies, a brother-sister marriage is acceptable. For oth
- reciprocity
- Mauss concludes that we see so many examples of societies with a system of total services because in fact i... At first glance, Mauss appears to be saying that societies based on this kind of gift are qualitatively different than market-based societies, like the West. In some ways, he is trying to find a way to compare these kinds of societies. It would be a mistake to say that is asserting a
- 8.2 @1002:2024
- ristianity into a truly global religion. In many societies which were once under colonial influence, the wor... ies is strictly controlled, or even banned. Many societies also regulate religion in specific other ways. ... of religion make it hard to understand how other societies relate to religion. Christianity shapes the way ... mples of how many scholars have thought about how societies change. * Many scholars think that all societi
- 13.1 @1002:2024
- y of society. * What is most interesting about societies is that they tend to stay the same. We should ask... brother in many different, unrelated patrilineal societies (Radcliffe-Brown [1924] 1952). * Although not a... 5] 1952, 181). * Unlike an individual animal, societies can and sometimes do become something totally new... the old one. - An organism lives and then dies. Societies don’t have to die (Radcliffe-Brown [1935] 1952, 1