ANTHROP 1AB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Frans De Waal, Conflict Avoidance, Game Theory
10 Dec 2012
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Positive sanctions are prizes or recognition towards people that act good: ex. Students who behave in class, they get recognition for that. Negative sanctions are methods to discourage people from behaving badly in order for them to act properly: ex. Telling someone the truth about they way they act is bad. Informal sanctions includes teasing and gossiping about people who misbehave. Formal sanctions includes fines and other punishments distributed upon people who break the law: police giving a speeding ticket to someone that was speeding. Therefore, norms and sanctions maintains social order. Males and females have different hierarchy (rank, dominance) Subordinates: subordinate individuals are often intimidated by dominant individuals. Non-popular kids are usually afraid or the popular kids. Conflict is exist in primate groups such as ourselves and primates and society. Douglas fry addresses different conflict management strategies: Game theory: find equilibrium and other aspects of the game theory: refer to chapter 17 with the situation with the prisoner example.
