ANTH 410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Stratification, Multilinear Map
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Questions: mcgee and warms chapter 1: herbert spencer. Spencer"s organic analogy is, if nothing else, detailed. Yet, in spite of that detail, going: discuss and evaluate spencer"s conception of the place of the individual in relation to culture/society. I struggled to find the individual at all in spencer"s conception of culture, especially as it relates to his organic analogy. Instead he sees the individual as almost the single cell beholden to the will of the overall larger organism. He goes into even less detail, and in fact is devoid of it, for any societies which lack social stratification. He simply states that they are analogous to a one, and then moves on. Additionally, the depth of detail spencer uses in his many examples are restricted solely to the biology of the organisms he is drawing these analogies about. Spencer"s mode of progressive evolution based mostly on the idea that, like animals in.
