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ANP 320 Exam 1
Social and Cultural Theory
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 3
02/13/2016

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Gemeinschaft
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Toennies idea of natural order: civilization is ruled by family life, community, and based on land ownership.
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GM Family life
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concord, people are the controllers
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GM Rural village
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folkways & mores. Common wealth controls
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GM Town life
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Religion, Church controls
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Gesselschaft
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Toennies idea of rational order: civilization/life is drive by policy, science, diversity, culture
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GS City life
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convention
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GS National life
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Legislation state controls
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GS Cosmopolitan
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Public opinion. Intelligence/scholars controls.
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Framework
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The ways in which we see the world
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Social Theory
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thoroughly researched ideas about how societies are organized & how social interactions changes over time.
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Theory
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Made to serve ideological purposes; thus, theories can be disproved.
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Binary Opposition
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Two opposite stances.
Ex: White feminism vs. Black feminism
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Western binaries
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Typically, in the form of hierarchies.
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Binary framework
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Through which we view/analyze different societies.
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Western culture
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is politics. "WE" are the culmination of a trajectory of development; thus, things have to be in hierarchies.
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"Everyone else's present is our past."
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This belief sets us up to be biased in how we see the world beneath us.
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Ferdinand Toennies
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Influenced his exposure to pre-industrial --> industrial society. "Face to face to Mass Society." Wealthy, 1855-1936
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Principles of Order:
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1st order: Natural; Gemeinschaft. Fuedalism, Idea Law
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2nd Order:
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Rational, Gesselschaft: City, Metropolis, Capitalism.
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2nd order Identity
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Law upholds rational individual identity; is in fact rooted in this. Based on commerce and trade.
Marked by urbanism
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Capitalism & the individual
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"Capitalism does best when the people involved in it ONLY see individualism." - Hourani
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Ascribed Status
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your status is placed upon you.

White privilege is a recognition of this
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Meritocratic
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your status comes from your effort
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Toennies & State of Nature
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THERE IS NO STATE OF NATURE AS IN HOBBES
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Toennies & "Man"
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Man is a social being & social organization. Social Organization determined the character of Man, NOT "human nature".
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"man vs. man"
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friend or foe. mutual underlying fear drives man to assume the worst so he can save himself. Man is SELFISH.
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State of Warre
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Refers to the underlying fear we have that drives our actions
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Hobbes
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Method of Subtraction; at core is nature of man/warre
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State of Warre
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All against all.
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State of nature
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AN imagined realm conceived from theoretical argument.
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Hobbes believed that at the core of man the individual has:
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REASON.

It is this rationality that leads to the prisoner's dilema.
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Human nature for Hobbes suggest that
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Human beings are self-interested, rational, greedy. Maximize profit, minimize loss.
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Escape from State of Nature? From this civil society is born.
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Man acceded to a social contract. Driven by fear man gives up personal freedoms to an artificial actor so order is maintained. THE GOV'T & us as law abiding citizens.
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Marx on Hobbes.
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Thinks it's bullshit. Hobbes's social experiment is rooted in PURE theory NOT the real world; thus, not applicable.
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Marx's reaction to Hobbes
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Instead of peeling back from society to the individual we must build from the individual to society. Only from this can we understand the collective world.
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Marx on Individualism pt 1
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Agrees that the individual exist when they are primary in the State of Nature
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M on I pt 2.
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"pure theory is for the birds"
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M on I pt 3.
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Individuals are not primary
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M on I pt 4.
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we are born into these relationships
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M on I pt 5.
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we are a product of these relationships
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M on I pt. 6
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What matters is the nature of these relations.
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Marx, Engel, and Society.
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You cannot predict what our society can look like based on theory. You need to do the work and look into these relations.
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State of Alienation
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Prohibits us from viewing ourselves as we are.
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Marx on Capitalism
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= oppression because of labor exploitation. Social processes > fear.
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Bourgeoise
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Owners of production
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Proletariat
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laborers
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Predecessor of capitalism
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Feudalism
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Internal Relations
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WE become separated from ourselves (or parts) because we realize what we could have and what we do are two different things.
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Alienation
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we confront ourselves by alienating ourselves from these objects.
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Alienation results
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We becomes separated from ourselves; something to be dominated/controlled.
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Marx & us
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It is in our nature to have wants and needs; thus, when we outgrow these we develop more.
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Means of production
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access/ ownership to non-human inputs of production
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1. Instruments of labor
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Infrastructure: tools, factories
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2. Subjects of labor
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natural resources and raw materials.
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Division of labor
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assignment of task to increase efficiency --> causes separation as some task require more skill that others.
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Feudalism
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political system that had lords having land ownership. vassals rented basically and provided small incentive and military protection for serfs.
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Mode of Production
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Production forces + means of production
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Ontology
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Simply, the study of first principles or the essence of things.
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Telos
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an end or purpose
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super delegate
Definition
big wigs that don't have to vote for the way their state does
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State of Nature
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the rational of man at their core
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De-commodification
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viewing utilities as a right/entitlement NOT something to be bought or paid for. Such as housing.
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