Economic anthropology

What is society? Is it the people we surround ourselves with? Or the those who know next to nothing about us, yet judge? It is human nature to judge people on first impressions. First impressions are very basic and many times biased or totally false because you have yet to “scratch the iceberg of their personality”. That is where social standings come in, most people believe that the more people you surround yourself with, the more social you are, but it’s a mixture of that and also what random…

Conclusion The primary purpose of this study is to examine Judith Butler theory of gender performativity. In her work Gender Trouble, she argues that gender identity cannot be biologically determined. She challenges the belief that certain behaviors are natural. Her argument is that gender and sex are not natural but they are constructed through the working of power in societies such as institutions, discourse, and practices. Consequently, gender is prompted by obligatory norms to be one…

Mahasweta expose the extreme oppression of children in rural India but she shows the way out. Moyna is not crushed by the circumstances of her life. Instead, she constantly demands answers to her questions. However, in “The Why Why Girl”, the socio-economic hierarchies pragmatic measures are needed to refrain one from…

Since the emergence of Anthropology as a discipline, there have been many concerns about the ethics and morality of multiple anthropological studies. Are they necessary to uncover new information? Is the interest of the participant being considered? Are the procedures even safe? The most important answer to these questions is to ensure that each anthropologist engaging in experiments and fieldwork considers the safety and well-being of every individual involved through Review Ethics Boards.…

Culture is based on the knowledge as well as the behavior of a particular group of people, defined through many different aspects such as: religion, cuisine, socials habits, music and last but not least through dance. Most of the countries nowadays had a large variety of nationalities within their population, the culture inside the country is influences by all the nationalities that form that country, therefore as the number of nationalities grows, so does the culture. The culture we are raised…

Cultures all around the word use different animals or figures to symbolize other things. When someone says the word “snake,” things such as a gardner snake or a rattle snake might come to mind. Now when a person hears the word “serpent”, depending on the cultural location, many different images can come to mind. The serpent is used in a latin term meaning, “A word used in mythological or religious contexts to denote a being that looks like a snake but has a heightened sense of intelligence”…

It is a scientific study of how people’s feelings, behavior and thoughts are affected by actual, conceit or implied presence of others. It refers to existential method of investigation. Socio-Psychology is a branch of Sociology and Sociology is a sub-field of both its parent disciplines (Psychology and Sociology). “Socio Psychologist on the other hand, are usually interested in how groups behave and how the individual members are influenced by the group in which they belong how a person thinks…

In adopting a different approach to the analysis of invisible pedagogies, Bernstein distinguished between economic and symbolic assumptions. Bernstein highlights the relatively high material economic costs of the space of an invisible pedagogy, compared to those of a visible pedagogy. This is because an invisible pedagogy presupposes considerable freedom of movement on the part of the child. Bernstein…

Culture and Communication Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural communication. It explains the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behavior. According to the theory, it is challenging when having effective communication with people of different culture. The way of thinking, seeing, hearing, and interpreting the world is provided by people in various…

In the theoretical models of sociology, there are 3 different ideologies. Compared to the other theorists, Max Webber takes a very different approach to proper sociological theoretical models. His idea is that society as a whole is basically the sum of all the everyday interactions of the individuals in the society. He believes that the term we call society is nothing more than a shared reality between its various inhabitants, and very influenced by it. In Max Webber’s view, if one wants to…