ANTHRO 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Pierre Bourdieu, Tom Boellstorff, Proletariat
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Topics on exam 3 (tuesday 11/10-wednesday 11/11): gender, sexuality, ethnicity and naionalism, race and racism, class and inequaliies, boellstorf ch. 6. How do anthropologists analyze class and inequaliies: inequality isn"t natural to socieies, but humans do tend to organize hierarchically, theories of class. Lived in ime marked by great poliical change and revoluion. Ideniied bourgeoisie (own factories) and proletariat (working class: capital growth= goal of bourgeoisie, capitalism: works by exploiing the labor of the proletariat. In 21st century, bourgeoisie and proletariat are divided; we have a middle class plus diferent levels of upper and lower classes. Habitus: a structured and structuring structure , disposiion acquired through enculturaion, helps explain why individuals make the choices they make within a structured society. Explain diference between structure and the individual: the rules of the game . Intersecionality: gender, race and class cannot be considered independent of one another.
