ANT 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ethnocide, Hard Power, Caste System In India

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 1101
• Professor: Deborah Sick

Document Summary

Chapter 11: grouping by gender, age, common interest, and social status. An organized category of people based on age; every individual passes through a series of such categories over his or her lifetime. A formally established group of people born during a certain timespan who move together through the series of age-grade categories; sometimes called age class. Because ties of kinship and household are not always sufficient to handle all the challenges of human survival, people also form groups based on gender, age, common interest, and social status. Age grouping may augment or replace kinship grouping. An age grade is a category or people organized by age. Some societies also have age sets, which are composed of individuals who are initiated into an age grade at the same time and move together through a series of life stages. Common-interest associations are based on sharing activities, objectives, values, or beliefs.