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Society decides whether male or female.
Part Timers
Dual Role:
contact supernatural, trance, meditation, drug
pharmacologist |
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Agricultural people
Horticultural - know the seasons and the first day of every type of season.
Multiple keepers, each holds different rituals for the seasons. This keeps the kinship together. |
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| Society - Structure and Function |
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| People you come into contact with based on your age |
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| Egalitarian Society vs. Stratified Society |
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Egalitarian Societies - Hunter-gatherer societies
lack formal social stratification.
May display inequality in personal relations based on age, gender, or personal ability.
No category of people w/in the same sex or age group has special privilege.
Stratified Societies - organize around formal modes of social stratification.
Likely to form classes or castes.
Common for men to outrank women.
Inequality may be based on human attributes such as age and gender. |
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| Status and Role within culture |
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Status -
What you get back from society.
Role -
Part you play
Ex: Status of a doctor is high class and very respected. The role of a doctor is a healer. |
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| People you come into contact with on a daily basis whether the relationships with the people are close or distant. |
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| Gender is culturally determined while sexuality is bioligically determined. |
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| Homosexuality vs. Homosexual acts |
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| Homosexuality is the sexual preference while homosexual acts are like girls making out during spring break. |
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Male - Success determined by economic well-being.
Body indestructable - Jackass, Manual Labor
Not supposed to be passive when it comes to:
Action
Sex
Control
Female - Success determined by Apperance
Body Fragile
Supposed to be Passive
Not sexually exprienced |
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| Sexual Frequency and Restrictiveness of Culture |
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Sexual Order is culturally controlled - not biologically
One must understand the culture to understand sexual behavior.
Degrees of restrictiveness:
Complete
Highly Restrictive (Men's houses)
Moderate Restrictiveness
Adultery
patri-based culture more concerned
Limitations on Partner
Incest. Reasons:
Natural Aversion Theory
Genetic Compilations
Broadens link of other kin groups |
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| Marriage as social, political, and societal union of individuals and lineages. |
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Marriage: socially approved union of a man and a woman.
Arranged marriages is less concentrated on the individuals and more focussed on linking the kin groups together for possible social or political advantage. |
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| Marriage forms: arranged, mandated, and self choice. |
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| Marrying outside of a particular group or family |
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Marrying inside of a particular group.
Tribes are usually endogamous |
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| Settling terms of marriage: dowry, bride price, and bride service. |
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Dowry - family assets or heirlooms that are matrilineal.
Bride Price - a price the man must pay the family of the woman in order to marry.
Bride Service - Work for the brides family in order for approval to marry (ex. working in the fields) |
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| The person has one partner at one time, but gets married again after being widowed or divorced. |
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Nuclear - Mom, Dad, and kids
Extended family - two or more married couples and their children
Joined family - |
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| A kinship group based on a unilineal descent rule that is localized, has some corporate powers, and whose members can trace their actual relationships to eachother. |
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| A kinship group normally comprising several lineages; its members are related by a unilineal descent rule, but it is too large to enable members to trace actual biological links to all other members. |
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