ANTHRO 2A Study Guide - Final Guide: Sociocultural Evolution, Symbolic Interactionism, Social Stratification
9 Mar 2019
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Repressive power - marx"s theory which claims that power is rooted in economic relations. Capitalists coerce workers through top down (hierarchy), visible tactics. Disciplinary power - foucault"s theory; power is embedded in social relations. Power is a decentralized network that we are socialized from birth to participate in; self-disciplined to comply. Productive tools of power reproduce and circulate power. Participating in disciplinary processes that generate social stratification. Sources of repression have become invisible, elusive, and hard to identify. Social stratification - systematic inequality between groups of people. Unequal distribution of power, wealth, income, prestige, knowledge, and other resources. Slavery - people are property and work to be supplied with basics for life. Caste - based on ideological heredity with no upward mobility. Feudal estate systems - based on political heredity with no upward mobility. Socioeconomic class - based on economic income with some upward mobility.
