ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta, European Canadian, Ethnic Cleansing
16 Mar 2017
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Refers to the varied ways in which societies maintain a conflict-free, status quo. Different societies will have different ways of maintaining order. Bands and tribes (small-scale societies) versus states (large scale societies) The larger population, the more difficult it is to monitor people and impose order. Larger societies impose order on people through large-scale institutions. Systems of social control vary depending on social scale. In small-scale, face-to-face groups, social control is less formal and based only on norms. In large-scale societies, norms regulate daily life but so do laws can be serious including death. How to eat at the dinner table: norm. Accepted standard for behaviour, usually unwritten: law. Don"t grow their own food, reliant on always searching around. Not many personal possessions/or household (always moving with resources) Order is maintained through informal means of gossip, story telling. Don"t have gender status distinctions and also share. Create a bias against violence as a means of establishing order.
