ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Common Descent, Social Democracy, Nationstates
3 May 2017
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Pompeii"s people: eruption of mt vesuvius 79 ad, using advanced technology to uncover daily life and how people engaged in economic activity. Social organization: the 1% and the 99, social classes. Human societies are able to organize human interdependency successfully only if they find ways to manage relations of power among the different individuals and groups the comprise. Power- transformative capacity; the ability to transform a given situation: social power- when the choice affects an entire social group, wolf describes 3 different modes of social power: Intensify food production by inventing new technology: reduce their numbers by inventing new social practices, migrate elsewhere. Although states that monopolize the use of force often perpetrated injustice or exploitation as a side effect, hobbes and others viewed this as the necessary price for social order. Power is an independent entity that exists outside human beings power does not belong to all humans; more a case of trying to gain access to power.
