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- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== The reality of society ====== ===== The reality of society ===== ==== Week 1: Why do we need anthropology? / Economic rationality and the reality of society ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 1002: Anthropology in th... **societies are based on fictions**. Members of a society live as if their shared fiction is true. This cl
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- as and the development of anthropology ===== * Society is a thing //sui generis//. * Society is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. * A society is like a machine, or like the body of an organis... y called his “structural functionalist” theory of society. * What is most interesting about societies is
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- For Durkheim, if societies are wholes then each society is //sui generis// (Durkheim [1912] 2008, 27). * A society creates itself. * A society creates its own reality which its members accept unconsciously. All societies have one thing in common. A society must impose one idea on its members: What is sacr
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- g and selling. I would like to argue that in this society many exchanges are gifts also. Mauss says that the essence of society is a “system of total services” in which everythi... , 5). It is a state of total interdependence. No society is a perfect system of total services. Every society has that idea at its heart, even if people don’t know
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- e gift societies and capitalist societies. * A society is a system of total services in essence, even if... at his present was the Tiv people’s future. Is a society in which commodity exchange dominates truly a uni... Shipton 1989) ===== Inside of every contemporary society, there are two competing principles ===== ==== A provisional conclusion ==== * Every society is based on the obligations of reciprocity, even
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- resent ===== One nation under ____. ===== Every society has answered these questions in its own way. Man... think about the relationship between religion and society. * In Christian thinking, morality is a matter... rom a primitive condition toward a modern type of society. * They may also assume that there is a special... at induces a shift to a fundamentally new kind of society. ==== Max Weber’s theories of society and social
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- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== Gifts, or society as a system of total services ====== ===== Gifts, or society as a system of total services ===== ==== Week 2:... iology and anthropology * He wanted to analyze society as an objective fact * Society is a collective consciousness, like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
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- race descent are the mechanism by which people in society are assigned to discrete groups. Just by tracing... rson’s ancestry through their mother or father, a society places each person in a distinct unilineal descen... in a group, it creates a structure for the whole society. ==== Not every society has unilineal descent groups ==== Claude Lévi-Strauss ([1949] 1969) argues that
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- cts, just like “sacred” and “profane.” * Every society will have its own ideas of what is “set apart and... forbidden” (Durkheim [1912] 2008, 66). And every society will likewise have its own idea of what counts as... thoughts of the collective consciousness of each society, or “social facts” (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 60). * When a society’s sacred is mixed with things it classifies as pr
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- s fantasy is not actually viable as a model for a society. People will still use social ties to patch the holes in a market-based society. Today, we can see that the triumph of the bourg... adult? ===== Nationalism is a symptom of a mass society ===== Historians have also cast doubt on the ide... eties industrialize. * In an industrial, urban society, it becomes important to think of the whole socie
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- Is climate change a symptom of living in a “risk society”? ===== Ulrich Beck (1992) proposes that we are ... dernity, characterized by what he calls a **“risk society.”** * The first phase of modernity is defined ... ial needs. * The second phase, that of the risk society, must decide **how to distribute bads**. * In... * Some examples of problems faced by the risk society: pollution, nuclear war, nuclear accidents, overp
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- uilibrium? * an expression of the capacity of a society, as a political community, to govern itself and t... phic descriptions were a reconstruction of a past society rather than of one in which they immersed themsel... An ethnographer who tells a story of change in a society risks imposing an outsider’s perspective on that society’s history. ===== Anthropology classes in 2025 an
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- pology? / Economic rationality and the reality of society** | Marx ([1843] 1978) | |\\ | Jul 29 | 1. [[1.1|... tion]] | | |\\ | Jul 31 | 2. [[1.2|The reality of society]] | | |\\ | **2** | **Gifts, commodities, and sph... Bohannan (1955) |\\ | Aug 05 | 1. [[2.1|Gifts, or society as a system of total services]] | | |\\ | Aug 07 ... Coastal Ecologies.” //Environment and Planning D: Society and Space// 42 (1): 147–65. https://doi.org/10.11
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- hat is the substance of this relationship? ===== Society as rules ===== Mauss says the gift comes with ob... e a rule you must obey. * In a Maussian view of society, people are rule-followers. * Society itself is a system of rules. ==== Do we agree that society has rules and being a social subject is following
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- mpasses the constantly shifting dialectic between society and land-based resources, and also within classes and groups within society itself.” (Blaikie and Brookfield 1987, 17) Clima... d Harold Brookfield. 1987. //Land degradation and society//. London: Metheun. http://archive.org/details/la... a Tupua: Place-Based Law in a Legally Pluralistic Society.” //The Geographical Journal// 184 (1): 19–30. ht