1. CLASS AND CASTE: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
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Day 1 A-B Questions Theme Intro
Day 2: C12 Assignment Review
Day 3: Ethnographic Incorporation
2. OBJECTIVES: THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO….
(TSWBAT…)
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TSWBAT Explain Function/Structures of Social Stratification.
2.
TSWBAT define and summarize the criteria that compose social stratification. i.e. Race,
class, gender etc.
3.
TSWBAT Define and Demonstrate using Ethnographies “Ascription and Achievement”.
4.
TSWBAT Define Describe Caste
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TSWBAT how Modernity has affected Social Differentiation. i.e. Concept of equal rights
3. DAY 1: CLASS ORIGINAL DISCUSSION
Pair up
Discuss the concept of Social Differentiation
Discuss if an Egalitarian society is even possible given your experience. Why/Why Not?
Does Social Inequality perform some useful function in our society?
What structures govern/maintain social inequality?
Put one statement/question on the board.
Student Facilitator: Student lead/driven discussion.
Take notes, record white board, and I will only make written comments on the board.
* Have Thematic Journal out to make notations.
4. THEMATIC JOURNAL AND CLASS/CASTE:
Individuals, Groups, and Societies
Societies & Cultures in Contact
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Status/Role:
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Population Movement: Migration
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Personhood:
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Indigenous Movements
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Conformity/Non-Conformity
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Modernity
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Public/Private
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Travel/Tourism
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Social/Group Identity:
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Colonialism/Post-Colonialism
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Ritual/Rite of Passage:
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Resistance
5. THEMATIC JOURNAL AND CLASS/CASTE:
Political Organization
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Power and Authority
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Formal and Informal Political Systems
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Social Control/Legal Systems
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Inequality
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Social Organization of Space and
Place
Economic Organization and the
Environment
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Division of Labor
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Space/Place
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Systems of Production/Consumption
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Exchange Systems
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Industrial/Proletarianization
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Conflict and Resistance
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Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
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Colonialism and Post Colonialism
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Globalization
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Globalization
6. THEMATIC JOURNAL AND CLASS/CASTE:
Moral Systems
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Ethics
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Justice Taboos
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Suffering
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Good and Evil
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Purity and Impurity
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Honor Shame
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Globalization
7. C12 ASSIGNMENT
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Why do you think that no culture/civilization has developed without social stratification?
• Purpose of social stratification (Functionalism)
• Give two examples of functional social inequality and one has to come from the
!Kung, Amish, etc.
8. C12 ASSIGNMENT
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Do you agree or disagree with the statement by Anthropologist Gerald Berreman (p.316)?
• Social stratification “ …painful, damaging, and unjust…”
9. C12 ASSIGNMENT
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To what extent do you Agree with the Marxist/Weber “social conflict” theory (p.316)
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Outline the basic beliefs of Marxism p. 316-317.
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Review Postmodernism on p.63 and first column p.68.
10. C12 ASSIGNMENT
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Prestige: List 7 occupations in the modern age and place them in the Social Class
Pyramid. If you can provide estimates of education and wealth required for each.
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Think about your IA Observation: did you make a judgement based observation
because of how you categorized someone’s job/career/lifestyle?
11. C12 ASSIGNMENT
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The American Dream statement/question:
• Can social mobility happen for everyone?
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Page 322: “Social mobility….”
• People strive to stay in a class if born into privilege.
• Do you agree/disagree?
12. C12 ASSIGNMENT
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Material Basis of Class:
(did materialism affect your IA?, consider context, did you have preconceived notions about
Walmart or Starbucks before your observation that shaped your observation? That’s a
postmodernist perspective.)
13. C12 ASSIGNMENT
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Credit Cards & Fight Club:
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“…We buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t
like…” Paraphrase -Fight Club
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“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life.
Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at
least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect
bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you
used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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This is the essence of a critique of Materialism.
14. C12 ASSIGNMENT
Education:
Ascribed or Achieve status or both?
Phillips Exeter Academy NH:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Phillips_Exeter_Academy_alumni
Checkout graduates achievement*
Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, MA
http://www.andover.edu/About/NotableAlumni/Pages/shortlist.aspx
Choate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choate_Rosemary_Hall#Notable_alumni
http://www.choate.edu/about/history/notable-alumni/index.aspx
15. C12 ASSIGNMENT
To what extend has China succeeded in creating a classless society?
p. 329-335
Examples yes/no:
A
B
C
16. C12 ASSIGNMENT
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What is the relationship between Caste and Religion? P. 335 to End
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What rules govern Caste?
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Will the Caste system continue this century?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-not-past.html?_r=0
https://www.google.com/#q=indian+caste+system+today
Genetics and Caste:
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/indias-caste-system-goes-back-2-000-yearsgenetic-study-f6C10874609
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/22/india-caste-system_n_1165874.html
18. FUNCTIONALISM
Cultural institutions support structure of society to serve needs of individuals in a society.
Consensus of distribution of wealth/resources
Acceptance of inequality
Social Control: preserve status quo
Inequality & Social Rewards: to be a doctor takes….
19. GERALD BERREMAN
Inequality is the root of most conflict
“…painful, damaging, and unjust…”
Agree/Disagree?
How to incorporate into our study of Anthropology?
21. THREE DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
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Power: control of resources
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Wealth: accumulation of resources and/or access to means of production
• Capitalists vs. Workers
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Prestige: social honor, respect (Weber)
• Education, Jobs, Salary, House, Car, Clothes
• Food Lion, Giant, Shoppers, Wegmans, Krogers, Whole Foods, Trader Joes.
22. ASCRIBED VS. ACHIEVED STATUS
Ascribed: Born into, given, conferred from birth.
Achieved: work/merit, social position that is chosen or made on your own.
Most Societies have a BLEND
Social Mobility: Up and Down
23. US OPEN SOCIETY
American Dream: education, hard work, thrift
“bootstraps”
Horatio Alger: Ragged Dick character
Reality: debt, credit cards, student loans
Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class
Life Changes: Opportunity costs
24. JOHN OGBU
Voluntary minorities vs. Involuntary see class differently:
Japanese/Irish/Chinese vs. African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans
25. PEOPLE TEND TO LIVE WITHIN THEIR CLASS
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Endogamous societies:
• College
• Job/Career
• Living Space/Neighborhood
• Social
• Common Experiences
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Public School is Social Engineering: Why?
Egalitarian?
27. C12 ASSIGNMENT
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The American Dream links
Fareed Zakaria Time:
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2026916,00.html
28. PBS CLASS IDENTITY PAGE
PBS Class Identity Page
http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/games/index.html
US Census Bureau measure of poverty
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty.html
30. FUN AND QUICK PRESENTATION MARXIST THEORY
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqcMy3cOiW4
31. “CLASS” FROM PEOPLE LIKE US FILM
This is two hours long, we will watch the first 20 minutes or so and then discuss (like A -B Qs).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATcF3BInt_w
32. YOUTUBE VIDEO “SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION”
Don’t mind the music- this has value: key terms, brief (less than 10 min), and useful to review
(easily accessible).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyX6ICxLv5k
33. CODE SWITCHING (C5 LANGUAGE) AND CLASS
Did you observe or were you affected by this during your IA Observation?
About students transitioning to Georgetown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HIe4qwObUk