ANTH 1220 Lecture 47: Lecture 47
17 May 2017
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The ways in which societies are organized to plan group activities, make decisions affecting members of the group, select leadership, and settle disputes within the group and with other groups. The study of ways that communities plan group actions, make decisions affecting the group, select leadership, and resolve conflicts and disputes both within the group and with other groups. Abstract notions citizenship (sectional citizenship: the way you fit into society and the way one does not) Thinkers such as karl marx and lewis henry morgan looked for laws through historical change we call this cultural evolutionism. Anthropologists find that in fact, there is no law, that social organization is arbitrary. Power: transformative capacity (anthony giddens); the ability to transform a given situation, political power: visible, hidden, invisible, political anthropology: the study of social power in human society. Gramsci argued that coercion alone is rarely sufficient for social control.
