ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Reproduction, Paternalism, Realplayer
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He is one of the key, leading anthropologists of the moment. His thematic speciality is neoliberalism, welfare, and distribution. His de nition of dependence is a mode of action, rather than stigmatized as someone who is unable to contribute to society or to help himself. This is pragmatic rather than principled and rooted in the idea of equality, such that is a western phenomena. Mass unemployment is not going to disappear anytime soon, and that wage labour can therefore no longer serve as the main basis of social membership . Wage labour is not the only way of contributing to the society, and various forms of dependence (inc. care giving and care receiving) must be recognized as necessary building blocks of society. Big is the recent south african campaigns for a basic income grant, esp. in south. The main idea is for the state to deal with a crisis of persistent poverty.
