ANT 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Caste System In India, Social Stratification, Dharma
12 Dec 2016
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Age grade: an organized category of people based on age; every individual passes through a series of such categories over his or her time. Age set: 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. Each boy born within a 15-year period seven named age sets exist. Common-interest associations: an association that results from the act of joining, based on sharing particular activities, objectives, values, or beliefs, sometimes rooted in common ethnic, religious, or regional background. There is a large variety of common-interest associations. In the united states, they include sport, hobby, and civic service clubs; religious and spiritual organizations; political parties; labour unions; environmental organizations; urban gangs; private militias; immigrant groups; academic organizations; women"s and men"s clubs of all sorts, etc. Today, about 250,000 african-born immigrants like in the new york metropolitan area the city"s largest african group hails from ghana.
