SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Female Genital Mutilation, Pierre Bourdieu, Christian Fundamentalism
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Pierre bourdieu and cultural capital: culture shares many of the properties that characterize economic capital, habits and dispositions. Subcultures and counter cultures: subculture: a world within a dominant culture. Values, norms food, religion, language, or clothing may set them apart but subculture is largely compatible with the dominant society. Values, norms, are incompatible with dominant culture. Organized crime, societies for men loving boys/girls. Not always negative but over conformity; fundamentalist. Christian groups seeking to politically impress their view of the world on all of us. Anthro robert edgerton sick societies (1992: judge by their people"s happiness. Health, survival elements of exploitation: female genital mutilation, gang rape, wife beating, selling daughters into prostitution. Female genital mutilation often referred to as female circumcision; comprises all procedures involving partial/total removal of female genitalia: type 1, type 2. Most of the girls and women who have undergone genital mutilation live in one of 28. African countries, although some live in asia and middle east.
