ANT102H5 Chapter Notes -Weston La Barre, Biomedical Model, Social Inequality
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Overview: cultural persistence, mechanisms of change, modernization. Modernity: recent cultural condition, starts around 2 centuries ago, unfinished movement, look at it as a new type of political reality, machiavelli, the prince, a manual in state craft. In 1934 a: when demographics showed russian population, perception it was due to abortion and decline homosexuality, russian neo-liberal shock therapy, 1990"s, went from a communist country to a capitalist society, overnight. Modernization (historical process that leads up to modernity) Industrialization: machine and factory production, diminishes gender gap when machines do the work, urbanization, massive migration from country-side to cities, continuous, greater concentration of people in geographic centers, bureaucratization, larger population requires larger social control i. In both state and private enterprises: greater taxation. Increasingly rapid integration into the world economy a: countries are modernizing they will exploit resources that can be sold, selling commodities, compelled to seek wider markets, money is king i.
