ANTH 2110 Midterm: ANTH 2110 Exam Review (FALL) .pdf
23 Apr 2015
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! categorization of people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, social status, occupation & power. ! anthropology as science: early anthropologists life edward tylor, morgan spencer, Durkheim looking for laws of cultural change. ! un-regulated markets deliver best economic & social results. ! gap b/w rich & poor is only temporary. ! capitalism is seen as freedom a stage in which you were supposed to arrive at not reaching this was viewed as being backwards. ! rationality is one of the fundamental principles of free-market culture idea of universal human is an issue (rationality being applicable to humans in all cultures in all contexts) ! malinowski studied tribal economics (kula ring which was a non-economic exchange) The gift by mauss ex. ethnographic study in italo pardo poor residents of naples. ! modernization theory & dependency theory: caste v dominant system of social stratification which dates back to century (questionable) v social stratification.
