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| culture and personality - each culture has its ethos, its personality |
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| productive capital (capital that makes something else) like raw materials; symbolic capital (know the right people) |
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| yams given to wife who then gives them to the husband making the husband indebted to the wife for his political position |
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| give yams to the husband to thank him for perpetuating the family line |
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| moochers (always take, never give); uni-directional |
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| don't keep a tab; I pay some amount and a different amount is returned to me later or that person gives something to someone else; it all balances out in the end |
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| come to house to borrow one cup, later the one cup is returned |
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| members of a household pool all their resources together and then redistribute it evenly/as is needed |
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| everything is planned and regulated; makes you feel like you're in a small town when you're not; it's all right there, so you don't have to go all the way downtown; like a "fake world"/romantic view |
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| more real than real; eg. Disneyland because you don't actually have to go to the swamp to see the alligators, etc. |
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| in late capitalism, substance is nothing, image is everything; we define ourselves by the things we consum, not the things we produce |
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| late capitalism, symbolic value outweighs utility value, what people purchase is a form of their identity |
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| making a product less original, less unique is cheaper |
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| assembly line increases alienation from product; Ford reduced the skill of craftsmanship to unskilled labor |
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