ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mothers Against Drunk Driving
28 Apr 2016
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Status all people have a status that can be ascribed (born or grow into it) or achieved (earn it through effort). Role rights and obligations that come with a status. Example: mother means you have right to discipline child and obligation to feed and send child to school. Can be based on age, gender, or common interest. Group of people of similar age (called age set) that move through a sequence of statuses. Students: primary secondary college university. Masaii males (kenya): boys warriors elders. Medicine: medical student intern resident doctor. Status changes can involve an initiation ritual (rite of passage). Division of society into groups with different access to resources for maintaining life, influence, prestige. Class position in society determined by wealth (upper, middle and lower classes). Caste position in society ascribed at birth. Examples: india (brahmins = high vs. untouchables = low status), historic u. s. (white = free vs. black = slave).
