ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mbuti People, Informal Social Control, Polis
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Introduction to today"s course (not part of slides) Poleis - comes from the classical greek word for city. Politics has to do with social control. Today we will look at what happens when there is a break down due to conflict, and how it is resolved. All societies have ways of maintain social order, and all societies have to deals with disruptions to the social order: all societies have ways of establishing equilibriums. Sources of disorder: there are all sorts of environmental forces that can distrupt order, ie: tsumani, demographic, economic disorder lack of food. The social order itself does not depend solely on laws: laws itself are intended to maintain social order, however laws themselves can cause disorder. Pervasiveness of social control: there are numerous mechanisms that maintain order that are interlocked, range from settle to explicit laws and legal systems, combination of practice and institutions.
