SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hijra (South Asia), Arapesh Languages, Sexual Differentiation
22 Sep 2016
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Conceptions of time, space, causality, and health, sexuality, and race are all culturally defined. Sexual differentiation varies across the arapesh, mundugumor, Culture reflects a complex interplay between things and meanings. The socio-economic system(e. g. class relations) shape the social order more generally. Class forces as more fundamental than ideas. History of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle . The ruling ideas of any age are the ideas of the ruling class . Religion is the opium of the masses . Max weber: ideas of religion, ethnicity, prestige also matter. Weber asked: why did modern capitalism take root in western europe and not elsewhere. The world religions shaped the course of economic institutions. The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalist(1903-04) Doctrine of predestination, devotion to a calling, asceticism all fuel the spirit of capitalism in the west. Political beliefs and biases can be unconsciously built into material designs.
