Theories
All social norms and institutions serve specific purposes to keep societies surviving long term
What is Functionalism?
A person or group's capacity to influence or control others and resources
What is Power?
1990s in El Barrio/ East Harlem New York City
What is In Search of Respect?
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
What is Guests of the Sheik?
Nuyoricans
What is In Search of Respect?
Society is in constant conflict between the bourgeois and proletariat over control of capital and the bourgeois order things in society to benefit themselves and oppress the proletariat
What is Marxism?
Objects, resources, and belongings have socially embedded cultural meaning
What is Materiality?
1950s El Nahra, rural Iraq
What is Guests of the Sheik?
Phillippe Bourgois
What is In Search of Respect?
Lakota
What is Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions?
Cultures are webs of meaning made up of the relationships between binary structures which represent its core values
What is Structuralism?
A person/group's view of themselves and how they are perceived by others in their society
What is Identity?
Early 2000s, Lazio, Rome
What is Football, Fascism, and Fandom?
Richard Erdoes
What is Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions?
Tribal Iraqis
What is Guests of the Sheik?
People have sets of skills, understandings, and social networks which allow them to be successful in certain social circles and situations. This social capital is different in different circles and helps or hurts outsiders disproportionately
What is Practice Theory (Bourdieusian)?
Alteration of cultural/social elements in a society because of internal, external, or global factors
What is Change?
1970s, Rosebud Reseveration, South Dakota
What is Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions?
Alberto Testa and Gary Armstrong
What is Football, Fascism, and Fandom?
Quillasinga
What is Between Fire and Water?
Truth and knowledge is discrusively created by different social sources. What is known about a topic and how people perceive it is called discourse and this discourse is most strongly influenced by powerful actors and is reinforced by social instutitions.
What is Post-Structuralism (Foucault)?
Significance attached to objects, actions, behaviors, etc. which create a web of meaning in a culture
What is Symbolism?
2020, Southwestern Colombia
What is Between Fire and Water?
Viviana Gomez Echeverry
What is Between Fire and Water?
The Boys and Irriducibili
What is Football, Fascism, and Fandom?