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- 6.2 @1002:2024
- = ==== 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
- about_this_seminar @6916:2024
- s the many different ways people make society and social conditions thinkable. This class was developed to... serve as a required unit on the basic concepts of social sciences for students of development. Over time, it became an all-purpose introduction to social theory. When the development studies degree was brought into the Masters of Social Justice as a concentration, it had to change agai
- 6.1 @1002:2024
- = ==== 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
- welcome_to_the_seminar @6901:2024
- nd now, a very conventional way of thinking about social progress. This confidence in the direction of his... cieties, they both grapple with the same kinds of social suffering and injustice. At best, government policy and civil society organizations manage social problems that continue to fester. * Second, the ... uality and dependence. The real solution to many social problems may not come from social reform but by a
- 8 @6916:2024
- ise as power ===== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 6916: The social in justice\\ Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Slide... ciety from the ground up, in terms of patterns of social action. Forms of social action can be more or less rational, and can be rational in different ways. Social actions can be motivated by * Tradition: This
- 2024 @6916:2024
- 16: Culture and development—Key concepts (or, The social in justice) ====== ===== Semester 2, 2024 ===== Social science has always been central to the study and ... at makes societies change. But where you stand on social change depends on where you sit. When the whole w... dams (1916) | |\\ | **2** | **August 07** | **[[2|Social work as ethical knowledge]]** | Addams (1902), in
- 8.1 @1002:2024
- 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
- 7.1 @1002:2024
- 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
- 2.2 @1002:2024
- 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
- 2024 @6901:2024
- ups of people use politics to advance the goal of social change. It differs substantially from its descrip... r happiness, and will not be limited to examining social movements or nongovernmental organizations. The q... itutions engaged in development, empowerment, and social reform. Yet at the same time they seem to be rapi... 013. “Urban Land Restitution and the Struggle for Social Citizenship in South Africa.” //Development and C
- 8.2 @1002:2024
- 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
- 7 @6916:2024
- going dispossession Ryan Schram ANTH 6916: The social in justice September 11, 2024 Slides availab... 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
- 5.2 @1002:2024
- 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
- 2024 @3621:2024
- Many contemporary issues in anthropology and the social sciences are in one way or another concerned with the ways people communicate and the social effects of communication. This perspective is cru... 11:59 p.m., worth 25%, length 1000) * **[[the_social_life_of_language|The social life of language: Three cases]]** (due May 25 at 11:59 p.m., worth 30%, lengt
- 4.1 @1002:2024
- 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