ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Medical Anthropology, Dialysis
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Structure is relevant for all of anthro, but today we will focus on medical anthro. This is wrong, but need to know it. The claim: sure, the poor have fewer resources, but they also have their own value system that keeps them poor. Oscar lewis, 1959: 5 families: mexican case studies in the culture of poverty. Which lead to formation of special subcultures, and socialize people into behaviours and attitudes that perpetuate the cycle. -> suggests that poor people are poor b/c they are lazy. What might be the problems with this? it"s overgeneralizing, there may be poor people that are lazy, but not all. Avoiding economic problems: no opportunities for self improvement, education (structural arguement) Herman cain (us politician) on the occupy movement. Everybody has equal opportunity, and if you want to do better for self, you need to work harder. Inequality: the product of choices, policies, and social structures (ex.
