Anthropology 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tagula Island
29 Apr 2015
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Societies place people in categories, social groups relate differently to each other depending on their status. Ranked groups, determined at birth, often linked to a particular occupations. Race: an ideology that claims differences among people are natural, inborn, or biologically caused. Ethnicity: a shared sense of historical group identity on some grounds and a set of relations to other groups. Caste: a form of social strati cation found in its clearest form in india. Diverse interest groups that operate outside the government to organise aspects of life. Institutions that oppose the state (e. g: trade unions, environmental groups) Social organization that regulates relations among individuals, groups and their representatives. Degree of formalized authority. people that society says can use their power. 80 - 9- % of human existence h - g/f. Big - men or women (vanatinai paci c island)= big women) Regulatory individual, some decision making power, supporting council.
