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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
- 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 @2700:2021
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 2.2 @1002:2018
- nd systems like this continue to function in many societies around the world. This practice of giving and rec... -big-moka.html. ## Classical Anthropology ## * Societies are wholes which are greater than the sum of their parts. * Societies have boundaries and structure which maintain orde... y is everywhere ## Gift economies are not simply societies in which there's a lot of gifts. A gift economy i
- 3.1 @1002:2018
- reciprocate. * The gift has obligations because societies are more than the some of their parts. A society ... le who are interdependent on each other. * **All societies in some way impose the three obligations of recip... a very useful lens for understanding contemporary societies. This week, I'd like to develop these three ideas... w people understand new ways of exchange. * Many societies opt for 'develop-man' instead of 'development'.
- 5.1 @1002:2018
- o such thing as [[:modernity|modernity]]. * All societies change all the time, but no two societies end up in the same place. * Societies cannot be ranked on scale of progress. * Global capitalism needs there to be a diversity of kinds of societies. Maimafu, Kabre, Kawelka are needed to make it po
- 7 @2667
- and continues to be so important to contemporary societies, we can focus on *European Christianity in postcolonial African societies*. Within this topic, though, there is also a lo... * The introduction of Christianity into African societies was never simply a one-directional movement. Ev... ches in Africa ## Pentecostalism came to African societies relatively early in its history. One good example