ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Margaret Mead, Jury Duty

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Anthropology (ANTH)
• Course: ANTH 010
• Professor: gaddis

Document Summary

Aging in a sense is a continuous process (culture breaks it up into ageing, generation, roles, etc ) It"s the social and cultural processes that demarcate of any individual. Its society and culture that impose sharp discontinuities marking certain categories and making transitions really transitions. Different societies decide at what age we draw. Culture and society make a natural process into a discontinuous process. The state plays a huge role in defining adulthood. Category of adulthood is legally defined by the state. Category of adulthood is socially and politically constructed. Roles rights and responsibilities (state determines this shit) Share and idea of a dual universe. World we can see and are born into, everyday world we know, the second part is parallel to us, it"s invisible, said to be the real world. From where we come to where we go. From birth to death from death to birth the cycle between them.