ANTH 1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Thorstein Veblen, Marshall Sahlins, Franz Boas
14 Dec 2015
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Tacitus: was a roman, job was to write ethnography, first ethnographer. Lambert adolphe: invented normal curve to social problems. Karl marx: concepts of the bourgeoisie and proliteriat. Francis bacon: came up with induction and scientific method. Franz boas: four square model of anthropology: socioculture, physical, archaeological, and linguistic. Emile durkhiem: 2 types of solidarity: mechanical and organic. Three types of anomie: innovatory behavior, ritualistic activity, retreatism. Charles darwin: natural selection, wrote on the origin of species . Evolutionary theory: heritability and speciation, natural selection and environmental fitness. Invisible hand of the market, market will fix itself. Thorstein veblen: technology controls us and creates inequality. Three different types: generalized (eg. buying a friend a drink and probably being repaid eventually, not completely expected), Balanced (eg. going to the store and buying product; exchange of money for product) and negative (eg. being mooched off). Economies rely on reciprocity: generalized, balanced and negative.
