ANP 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 96: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Edward Sapir, Distance Decay
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Turner"s concept, denoting intense feelings of social togetherness and belonging, often in connection with rituals. In communitas, people stand together "outside" society, and society is strengthened by this. The concept is in many ways the opposite of marx"s alienation or durkheim"s anomie, and is closely related to the latter"s ideas about the "sacred" (vs. the "profane"). Space time compression is the increasing sense of connectivity that seems to be bringing people closer together even thought their distances are the same. Space time compression is the solution to distance decay because technology (internet, cell phones) is allowing us to communicate more across longer distances enculturation. The process of learning one"s own culture, also called socialization. Structural functionalism is a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. Reflexive anthropology means foregrounding the researcher and admitting that anthropology (or any knowledge) can never be completely objective.
