ANT E105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intersectionality, Bourgeoisie, Pierre Bourdieu
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Class: a system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society"s resources. Egalitarian societies: a group based on the sharing of resources to ensure success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence. Reciprocity: the exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties. Ranked societies: a group in which wealth is not stratified but prestige and status are. Redistribution: a form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern. Potlatch: elaborate redistribution ceremony practiced among the kwakiutl of the pacific northwest. Bourgeoisie: capitalist class that owns the means of production. Means of production: the factories, machines, tools, raw materials, land, and financial capital needed to make things. Proletariat: the class of laborers who own only their labor.
