ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Liminality, Social Inequality, Cultural Relativism
Document Summary
Age-grades: groupings of age-mates who are initiated into adulthood together. Non-centralized political systems: power & control over resources are dispersed among members of society- bands & tribes. Centralized political systems: certain individuals & institutions hold power & control over resources- chiefdoms & states. Political power: how power is created & enacted to attain goals that are presumed to be for the good of the community/common good. Action theory (1960s): politics is a dynamic & competitive field of social relations in which people are constantly managing their ability to exercise power over others. Structural power: operates & organizes in settings in which social & individual action take place. Racialization: social, economic & political processes of transforming populations into races & creating racial meanings. Racism: repressive practices, structures, beliefs & representations that uphold racial categories & social inequality. Discrimination: negative or unfair treatment of a person due to group membership or identity.
