Anthropology 2227E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oxfam, Meritocracy, Ethnography
28 Nov 2015
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The culture of poverty, urban ethnography, and medicalization. In just six short years, the richest 1% shifted from owning 44% of all global wealth to. 48% in 2014 according to international inequality watchdog, oxfam, the richest 1% of the world will own 50% of all global wealth by next year. Discussion questions: homelessness, poverty and blame: (the poorest 80% own just 5. 5% of all wealth) Easier to blame one person, rather than focusing on society as a whole. Viewpoint of if you fail you did not try . We like to put distance between ourselves and other people (blaming you makes myself look better) Our privileged position in society influences someone"s oppressed position (us being advantaged perpetuates a system of inequality there will always be an elite) othered . It is part of our capitalist ideology (we will in a very individualistic society)
