ANTH 0780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Linguistic Relativity, Practice Theory, Meta-Communication
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Race: race, as commonly used, is a social category, or worldview, racial categories do not describe genetic variation or histories of descent, there is more variation within human groups than between them. Race as an ideology: race is often understood as biological, yet judgements about race are often made based on dress, language, location and other cultural traits, race organizes social life in ways that have biological consequences. Ethnicity - race - gender: victorian english imagine working class irish women as, racially distinct, masculine, social life re-imagined as biology, bodies shaped by social categories. Difference and inequality: why do men sell crack, smoke cigs. Changing work opportunities: work on the factory floor, work in offices and service jobs. Cultural capital: capital: economic resources such as money, property and machinery, cultural capital: education, language, taste, and style, how you walk, do your hair, how you talk to people (habitus)
