ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lewis H. Morgan, Sociocultural Evolution, Émile Durkheim
17 May 2017
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Thought about how our european way of living was different than other parts of the world. Issue with relying on these tales: biased, ethnocentric, misunderstood. Big problem: relying on somebody else"s work second hand data (called armchair anthropology) Evolutionism (cultural evolutionism): view that cultural variation can be accounted for by different degrees of intellectual progress, leading to different levels of cultural achievement: lewis henry morgan (savage, barbarian, civilized) Re-thinking culture and society beginning of the 20th century. Social structure: the integrated assemblage of formal groups and social roles that make up a society. Social structure is external to the individual they are studying, but impacts the individual. Viewed individuals as the product, rather than the producers of the cultural environment. The theory that social structure determines peoples thought and behaviour and that culture functions primarily to uphold the unity and continuity of society developed by a. r.
