ANTH 2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Pierre Bourdieu, Social Reproduction, Potlatch
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Class and inequality class: system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates ab unequal dist(cid:396)i(cid:271)utio(cid:374) of a so(cid:272)iety"s (cid:396)esou(cid:396)(cid:272)es. St(cid:396)atify people"s life (cid:272)ha(cid:374)(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d affe(cid:272)t thei(cid:396) possi(cid:271)ilities fo(cid:396) up(cid:449)a(cid:396)d so(cid:272)ial (cid:373)o(cid:271)ility. Egalitarian society: a group based on the sharing of resources to ensure group success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence within or among groups. Created because the primary human economic and social structure is hunting and gathering reciprocity: the exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status. Ranked societies ranked society: a group in which wealth is not stratified but prestige and status are. Positions of high prestige are hereditary (ex. chiefs) redistribution: a form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern. E(cid:374)su(cid:396)es the pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s i(cid:374) high p(cid:396)estige a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)ese(cid:396)(cid:448)e the (cid:449)ell-being of everyone else. Potlatch: elaborate redistribution ceremony practiced among the kwakiutl of the.
