ANTHRO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ascribed Status, Achieved Status, Social Class
4 Jan 2017
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Following facial plane development, i bluntly dissected the visceral peritoneal reflection at the white line to develop a vesicouterine flap. How do power and privilege work through various forms of ranking: class and race. Human societies typically: recognize selves as a group, share a common symbolic system (often a language, reproduce themselves, share a territory, interact internally. Status: publicly recognized social position (such as princess: ascribed status: one about which you have little or no choice. Cousin: achieved status: one that must be acquired through effort (whether yours or someone else"s) Role: behaviors expected from someone in that status: such as. Parent: the obligation to feed their child: how we interact may have something to do with who we are interacting with (if we are interacting with someone with a higher or lower social class) Egalitarian societies: everybody holds the same rank. Stratified societies: put into ranks; some basis where one group of people are superior than another.
