ANTH 0817 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Social Capital, Individualism, Future Television

• School: Temple University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 0817
• Professor: Juris M.Milestone

Document Summary

Generation of kids who rely on a system of likes. Currency of like is a social capital. Looks at coolness in terms of media. Social capital in who and what you like. Greek life creates loyalty, but it isolates others. You all become the same rather than individuals. Many did not utilize the community places and stuck to their selves and stayed in their dorms. Football game example everyone was watching the same thing in separate spaces. No two people share the same exact network of friends. Minority students often sat alone or escaped the whiteness. Everyone claimed they had friends from other ethnic groups when in reality they did not our only did to not appear racists or mean. Culture can be invisible to its natives. People viewed americans in a very negative light most of the time. Americans were more social but cared less.