SOCI 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Syrian Civil War, Peace Corps, Nuclear Weapons Testing
26 Nov 2017
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Lecture #6: nuclear testing, upheaval and social change. Social change can be: cumulative occurs over time, gradual, involving over time, drastic, sudden or traumatic, natural typhoons, earthquakes, floods etc. Human-created: human actions, wars, interference /w climate, creations, ex. Wars; ww1 and ww2, civil wars, colonization, nuclear warfare/atomic bombs: most dangerous weapons of mass destruction. Nuclear disasters: hiroshima and nagasaki japan, chernobyl in russia, chemical wars, chemical ali" in iraq, fukushima disaster more recently, syrian conflict. Holly m. barker, anthropologist, activist, peace corps volunteer. Social structure of the marshall islands: the centrality of land to their worldview, matrilineal inheritance system, women central to land inheritance, subsistence food production, extended family systems. Indirect rule use of chiefs and local leaders to exert influence. Era of german rule seen as beginning of marshallese participation in world trade and change from subsistence, communal and family oriented economies/cultures to individual income generation.
