ANT 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Intersectionality, Ascribed Status, Endogamy
29 Mar 2017
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Cultural anthropologists are concerned with social inequalities because they are influenced by aspects of the culture itself. As cultures change because of economics, globalization, etc so will their inequalities. Applied perspective is concerned with human lives and lifestyle so inequalities can be worked towards to be changed for an improved way of life: gets rid of gender inequality, malnutrition, violence, etc. No, have to have certain qualifications for some jobs. Defined as a system by which society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy. These categories can lead to the patterned social inequality: social inequality the unequal sharing of resources and social rewards. Stratification persists because it is backed up by an ideology: people are stubborn on changing their beliefs and judgements based on what they already believe to be true, ideologies are ingrained into most societies about classes and stratification. Principles of stratification: it is a characteristic of a society, not simply a reflection of individual differences.
