ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bilateral Descent, Hutu, Idiom
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Many of them thought that societies stayed together because of their customs; social solidarity. Radcliffe-brown (one of the founders of anthropology): he was a contemporary. The division of labour in society- book that durkheim wrote. He made a distinction between social solidarity. He thought it was important to compare the relationship between an individual & society. Argued that each society pre-existed each individual (you are born into the society) It would reward people for obeying them or punish them. For instance: in prison we imagine only certain people to be admitted but a lot of other people go to prison as well. People cannot change society in any specific way. Homogenous, certain absence of structure, it was not distinguishable. All of the members are common in terms of experiences but they do not depend on each other to survive. Homogenous segments but each organ has a special role. Often in societies that were organized, european.
