ANTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marcel Mauss, Filial Piety, Jeffrey Dahmer
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A sense of being separated from your fellow men. Someone who lives in the military community at fort hood but does not partake in community activities and is not in it might feel a sense of anomie in the community. Ascribed: born into a certain social class, ex. Achieved: a status in society that you work for, ex. He leads by example, likeable, charming, but also threatening. Able to control a large group of people without police or military force. Things are valued for being things, not necessarily utility. People own signed football helmets for the sake of having them and being able to show them off, although they have no real use. Purchases intended to convey status rather than serve any real purpose. A wealthy person may opt to buy an audi or a lexus over a ford or honda to convey their status even though all types of cars have the same general purpose.
