ANTHROP 2AN3 Lecture 9: anthro 2F03 lecture 9
12 Jul 2014
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**essay handouts being given in next week"s tutorial** What we"ll do today: social relationships, practices, construct, maintaining, and policing categories and classification. Meanig relations, practices: cultural meaning are expressed in and through our relations with others. Initiated: norms: flirting, men asking women out (gender roles), values: important, desirability, symbols: frequent communication, compliments, hand holding, closeness, social media, constructions: desirable, worldviews: new, exciting. Established: norms: dating, physical contact, first date, labels, appropriate amount of time, values, symbols: meeting parents (serious, constructions: dating, living with one another, worldviews: who should pay for things, Maintained: norms: frequent communication, enjoyment of each other"s company, values: regular affection, monogamy, symbols: monogamy, constructions, worldview: Dissolved: norms: lack of communication, lack of affection, values: not desirable, symbols: division of material items, returning symbolic gifts, lack of physical contact, constructions: single, divorce, separation, worldview: single, sad, ending, appropriate ways in which to end relationship.
