ANTH 2 Study Guide - Final Guide: High-Occupancy Vehicle Lane, Conspicuous Consumption, Emic And Etic
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Structure: forces that are beyond individual control, that influence behaviors and predetermine certain outcomes/available choices (blueprint of the culture!?) Ex: laws, such as speed limit or carpool lane. Agency: free will, the ability to act in the face of environmental, social, cultural, and political structures (behavior that comes out of this structure/blueprint) Agency: we could not pay attention or jerk around on. Structure: acting professionally towards the teacher our computer. You won"t have to explicitly define these, but they will be relevant to everything! For example, in a ghost town where everyone drops dead but leaves behind everything it it"s place, you"re given the structure and have to determine the agency. Music raises awareness of the structures (ex:rap enculturated people to learn/think about those in the ghetto), and search to make a change in social/political issues. Conspicuous consumption: we consume things very visibly in order to display (ex: clothes, apple computers, etc. ) Function: the purpose of something (ex: police officer)
