ANTH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital, Bourgeoisie
2 Jul 2019
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Class: a system of power based on wealth, income, and social status that creates an unequal distribution of resources. Middle class: the concept of an average, healthy living with some time off and enough money to be comfortable. Some ask if inequality is a natural part of being a human. Anthropologists argue that this extreme of inequality is not a norm among human species. Human beings, as a species, have existed for approximately. Egalitarian society: group based on the sharing of resources to ensure success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence. Ranked society: prestige and status is stratified, wealth is not stratified. Chief accesses to luxury goods, use redistribution to keep their power. Redistribution: form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from members of the group and reallocated. Basic staples of life or ritualistic gifts. Bourgeoisie: owners of the means of production. Prol tariat: class of laborers who only own their labor.
