ANT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Opioid Epidemic
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Multiculturalism: emphasizes coexistence and exchange between groups of different cultures. Unfavorable view of muslims is on the rise throughout europe. Failure of multiculturalism can be pinpointed down to the presence of racism. We tend to put our own personal identities before the country as a whole. Scale: measure/ordering of entities with respect to quantitative attributes. Building on the concept of polism and comparison. Telling the size of something we are looking at in relation to other things. Individuals form social networks (friends family) neighborhood (multiple social networks) social institutions society. Power relations: how different groups are able to interact with and control other groups. Our social system is hierarchical where power is exercised to keep structure intact. Structure is made up of various groups. Multiple different kinds of power exist (social, political) We give up our power to authority figures. Rational legal authority (political): president, police officers.
