Ethnography

perspective. These people are also considered the original affluent society as stated by Marshall Sahlins. Their affluence is considered to be high due to their ability to live fully on very little supplies and do not have a materialistic desire. The ethnography written by Marjorie Shostak called Nisa is about her study of the !Kung/San culture. Part of Nisa’s culture that Shostak learned about was the gender roles and how it influenced the daily lives of the !Kung/San people. A band society…

The Tight Correlation Between Childhood And Child Abuse Introduction The first part of the essay aims to reflect the concept of childhood in sociology perspective. Childhood is a changing social phenomenon constructed and historically changing. While children are understood, as social actors involved in social life, their participation is seen different from adults their social achievements is not always invisible. The paper will briefly reflect the emergence of sociology childhood that lead…

than the Sword. Reynolds utilizes personals letters, others books, and of course, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and other books than Stowe wrote to support his argument, which were appropriate for the monograph. Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel G. Brinton and The Negro a Beast by Charles Carroll both disagree with Reynold’s argument and believe that “blacks were animals with uncontrollable passions and little intellect” (Reynolds, 2011, p. 233). They believed that black…

Elizabeth A. Armstrong and associates’ journal article ‘Good Girls’: Gender, Social Class, and Slut Discourse on Campus” admits that the United States’ patriarchal society controls slut shaming, basing it on a sexual double standard: it is okay for men to have sex without significant attachment, while women can only have sex with it (more specifically in relationships). Armstrong believes the picture is more complicated, and wants to go in-depth with women’s participation in slut-shaming. Even…

Balaji is a silk weaver, who works in a small-scale powerloom unit in Cubbonpet, a locality in the historic Pete area in Bangalore. The Pete is known for the intrinsic relationship between occupation and community making it the quintessential local trading centre to study in the city1. One such relationship is of the weaving cluster in Cubbonpet and Sudhamanagar having a long history that dates back to the seventeenth century or earlier. If Balaji was to weave in the early eighteenth century…

In 1926 E.E. Evans Pritchard, a highly regarded English anthropologist, began his first fieldwork study among the Azande, a people from the upper Nile area in Sudan, Africa. As a colonial anthropologist, Evans-Pritchard arrived among the Azande with certain assumptions of what he would find based on the biased social climate in England and the common belief that the peoples in places like Sudan were savages. What he found in Zandeland was a foreign, but fairly open people from who he learned…

Performance Evaluation In order to assess the model accuracy, it is necessary to use some quantitative measures of learning. In this study the Mean Squared Error (MSE) and regression analysis were used to evaluate the model performance. MSE is a useful measure of success for numeric prediction and is calculated using Eq. (1). It is worth mentioning that small values of MSE indicate better performance of the ANN model. It was found that the optimum performance of the model is at 25 neurons with…

All of us are a part of culture. We all live our daily lives and all take part in creating culture every single day. Although all of us are not working towards forming culture for the good, at least we are forming it. Henslin starts by defining subculture as the values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture; a world within a world. Comparing that to Heck’s definition, I see multiple similarities. Heck defines culture as a group with a unique…

focuses on many various aspects of culture and how it connects to psychology. More specifically, she fixates upon the cultural conditioning of sexual behavior, culture change, and the differences between the natural and biological performance. Her ethnography , Coming of Age in Samoa, argued that it was cultural factors rather than biological forces that caused adolescents to experience psychological and emotional stress, anxiety, and behavioral…

by political anthropology and sociology – two major subjects during the Sciences Po cursus – I decided to present my environment in the form of a monograph. I will not endorse the sociological definition, but rather the ethnological definition: “ethnography stays at the descriptive scale and aims to describe as precisely as possible a group or a culture. The perfect mean of expression is the monograph gathering and…