ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: American Anthropologist, Sapwuahfik, Immanence
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Symbols of category membership clothing and adornment is the most powerful symbol subsystem in the jock-burnout opposition an individuals bodily adornment is seen simultaneously with the individual provides the individual will not be separated from his/her social identity. Jock and burnout categories develop mutual opposition elements of behavior that come to represent one category will be rejected by the other. Jocks are generally orientated both to school and local community. Burnouts are generally orientated away from the school, towards the neighbourhood. Jocks accept facilities provided by the school and use them in rough conformity to school expectations: store their things in the lockers, use the bathrooms for their intended purpose, eat in the cafeteria. Burnouts express their counter-cultural position in the school by transforming their school facilities to suit their needs and identities: marginal space provided to burnouts for smoking added significance in its representation of.
