AHSS 1330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ascribed Status, Nationstates, Intensive Animal Farming
24 Jan 2020
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When meeting someone new we ask their names, what jobs they have. We ask to know what we can expect. One of the basic claims of anthro is that we are social species. We depend on and learn from others. We spend far more time living together with parents than any other species. Society: a group of human beings living together whose interactions are predictable and regular in ways. Culture and society are terms social scientists use, but we aren"t always specific to which we mean and when. Ex; a coin has two sides, society and culture are two sides of the same complex thing. We have a range of different status". Role- a bundle of rights and obligations appropriate for a particular status. Status you achieve because you worked to get it (achieved status) In society, people are mix of ascribed and achieved (there are not just one status, they interlock and show up in pairs, roles are intertwined)
