Social Organization Flashcards
What is social organization?
The rules and structures that govern and guide behavior when interacting with people
Cultural rules and structures
-These connections guide behaviors religious symbols
What are Apotropaic symbols?
Symbols meant to display fear and spirits
-Get rid of evil spirits
-social units/group
-social status/ rank
-relationships that are relative to get each other
What is situational hierarchy?
Different levels of status/rank in a society
-trying to understand social rules they had in life
-social roles
What are social groups?
Residential
-One that consists of general education by the domestic family group
Ex: ones that live w you end you have daily interactions with
-Household, bands/village
Nonresidential
-not living with them or among them, not coming together as a physical group
-some sort of social network connection, but may never meet face to face
What are symbols?
Symbols are things that we have agreed as human beings to have a specific message
Artifacts themselves can be symbols
Ex. Tombstones. the meaning behind RIP.
Symbols cast also equate to symbolic actions, like using holy water to dispel bad spirit
Symbols are sometimes made to dispel fears
ex: le fear of ghosts or fear of the dead demons
-In Finland people would bury boxes of dead frogs under their neighbors doorstep to give them bad fishing magic
What is political organization?
Political Organization
Formal and informal institations that regulate a population’s acts.
Who has the decision making power in any culture organization?
Is the power…
Autonomous
-a small social group
-Nuclear family making all the decisions
-among very small hunter/ gather groups
-part of larger international markets that now take that away
-Inuit had autonomy until the early 20th century. Until the Canadian government.
Stepped in & forced them to live in villages to get services.
What is situational?
When you don’t have complete autonomy, but you realize this have more experience so some power is handed over to them.
What is permanent
-people have varying degrees of pertinent power towards other people.
-creating permanent positions of port
-For ex: think of England always having a monarch of the US always having a Supreme Court Justice.
-doesnt matter who is in the position, more so about the position is.
What are culture roles and what are some examples?
They are ruled or expectations of behavior based on shared beliefs with a specific cultural or social group.
Connections guide behaviors, importance or objects, religious symbols.
