ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Edward Sapir, Paul Fussell, Peerages In The United Kingdom
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People who not related by blood on marriage. Sodality: group with association other than kinship. Secondary association: common intent, but don"t know everyone. In formal groups: smaller groups, harder to see. Groups in any society that have different social advantages. Status (standing in society with a role, rights and responsibilities) Sociology tends to say that stratification is universal there"s always someone better than someone else at something. For the anthropologist some societies are egalitarian at a level of group. 3 levels of social stratification: egalitarian societies. Without any single group that has more access to economic resources, political power or status. Everyone is pressured to be the same. Differentiation along lines of gender and age. Everyone ha chance to gain states/standing i. e. iskut tahltan: probably 200 years old: ranked societies. No unequal distribution of economic wealth or political power (economically or politically evolution) Example #1: potlatching groups of pacific cost of.
