Driving After Class
The author of Driving After Class uses this type of vehicle as an metaphor for neoliberalism and class anxiety. *important*
SUV
As opposed to matrilineal systems, in this system of descent, inherited leadership, passes from father to son or from brother to brother. *
patrilineal
In 1795, Friedrich Blumenbach claimed that white Europeans came from [?] peoples based on the Bible story of Noah's ark. The word [?] is often used to refer to white people today based on his definition.
Caucasian
The [Modern OR Traditional?] state makes ethnicity into a problem
Modern states require that its people identify as
members of a nation: with a shared history, laws,
educational system, and patriotism commonly shared
Race
System of classification based on physical characteristics, socially constructed, identity assigned by others, dynamic
Students in Danboro (the town in Driving After Class) often attended pre-prom parties that allowed for class display. What kind of ritual do these parties represent?
Rite of passage/coming of age ritual
Money came to exist in the early state to pay __?*
Debts
As discussed by the theorist Michel Foucault, this term refers to the modern state expanding its authority and managing the health and welfare of the population.*
Biopower / Biopolitics
Promotes state deregulation, a decrease in state
involvement accompanied by privatization and
free market approaches, to encourage economic
growth *
Neoliberalism
Panopticon
A major effect of the panopticon is “to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility. A metaphor for how modern institutions exercise power not primarily through direct force or punishment, but through visibility and normalization.
Though she does not have much economic capital, as a PhD student at a prestigious university, Rachel Heiman has a lot of [?] defined as "general cultural background, knowledge, disposition, and skills that are passed from one generation to the next." **
Cultural Capital
requires individuals to marry w/in their own group and forbids them to marry beyond it. Preserves separateness and exclusivity of groups*
Endogamy
Bourdieu described this term as "ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions; the way individuals perceive the social world around them and react to it. [e.g., disgust and “get used to it”]*
Habitus
Ideology & politics that explicitly or implicitly define the nation in ethnic, racial, or narrowly religious terms.
Ethno-nationalism
Kinship
How people are grouped together as related/non-related; a discourse on the relationship
between the “biological” and the “social," basic form=marriage
This term arose in the 1920s with the closing of the American frontier and represents the ideal of self-reliance and enterprise.*
Rugged Individualism
when one party gets something valued highly in return for nothing or something lowly valued: the type of exchange that characterizes colonial
relationships.
[reciprocal exchange, negative reciprocity, potlatch, generalized reciprocity, indebtedness, balanced reciprocity, Kayasa]
Negative reciprocity
In discussing kinship, structuralist Levi-Strauss claimed that the taboo against [?] is the “first rule” that promotes passage from a state of nature to a state of culture and that this taboo is a rule obliging women to be exchanged between clans/tribes**
Incest
A mode of exchange where valuables are not traded or sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement
for immediate or future rewards. Eg: the Kula ring*
Gift Economy
Economy
The economic organization of a society involves cultural processes of providing the material goods and services it needs to reproduce itself.
3 parts = production, distribution/exchange and consumption.
Economic order is a cultural construction
Debates over this practice sparked concerns about overcrowding and roused uncertainties about the fiscal and discursive boundaries of inclusion and
exclusion
Zoning
The social experience of historical moment (economic & political), exerts a “palpable pressure” and results from contradictions within a class.
[subjectivity, class sensibility, neoliberalism, microprocess, condition of possibility, structure of feeling]
Structure of Feeling
Theorist Mary Douglas used this common, everyday word to describe "the by-product of a system" and "that which falls outside the system, that which is impure."*
Dirt
This identity involves 3 claims: 1) to common descent; 2) to a shared history; 3) that certain symbols
capture the core of the group’s identity *
Ethnicity
Compare and Contrast the traditional and modern state*
Traditional: Sovereign Power: the king “the right to decide life and death;" Taxes and maybe military service
Modern:
The enforcements of uniform standards, the control
and extension of formal education, the scale of
taxation, and monitoring health.