ANTH 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Exchange Theory, Spheres Of Exchange, Social Anthropology
21 Oct 2018
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Identify the three major types of exchange. Show how social proximity relates to reciprocity. Associate patterns of redistribution with the organisation of political systems. Discuss exchange spheres, money, and the different properties of money. A system for producing, distributing, and consuming goods. The sets of social relations through which labor is deployed to wrest energy from nature using tools, skills, organization, and knowledge (foraging as a mode of production) Include land, labor, technology, and capital (available resources) The transfer of goods, services, and other values between persons and social groups (exchange links production with consumption) Social exchange theory (rewards - cost = profit) Marx production is the most fundamental social process. Durkheim exchange is the most fundamental social process. Levi-strauss the continued growth of society depends upon exchange. Creating links between groups is how we form socierty. In terms of the objects being exchanged (exchange spheres) In terms of the social relationships involved in the exchange (modes of exchange)
