ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pierre Bourdieu, The Communist Manifesto, Cultural Capital
Document Summary
Egalitarian societies -a group based on the sharing of resources to ensure success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence. Up until 10,000 years ago, hunting and gathering was the primary human economic and social structure. 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. Places of power and where you are are primarily hereditary. Redistribution - a form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern. A redistribution ceremony famous in anthropology is the potlatch practiced among the kwakiutl of the pacific northwest. Noticed that key source of value and profit in the workplace was labor. Capitalists increased capital and laborers increased labor. Prestige - the reputation, influence, and deference bestowed of their membership in certain groups.
