ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality
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Reminder: midterm is 15% and 15 multiple choice. Main question: origins of social complexity , 600,000 years ago. Stratified type socities: everyone is unequal and there is unequal access to certain things. Social stratification is the same as social inequality this refers to the division of society into many layers. An example of social stratification includes: the elits and the commoners. Social stratification is based on different access to goods, prestige and power. Chiefdom: you are born into a particular family then you are automatically are given power there are 2 levels: the elite and commoners there are preferential access to the elite, economically semi-specialized. Ex specific people are specialized in certain specialties and they trade between eachother. State: state"s have a centralized government, they have political and religious elites, they have a control over violence, they have full time specialists , made up of 3 levels, elite, bureaucracy, commoners.
