week 4

Question 1

what theory did Alan fiske create

Answer 1

Fiske (1992) proposed a unified theory of social relations that could help explain many findings in social psychology.

Question 2

what 4 psychological models did Fiske propose(CEAM)

Answer 2

Communal sharing
Authority ranking
Equality matching,
Market pricing.

Question 3

Communal sharing

Answer 3

Everyone shares and contributes
Feel as though you are obligated
You choose to do it
More likely in small groups because you all know and care for each other (hunter-gatherer groups )

Question 4

Authority ranking

Answer 4

• Being told to do something
  No reciprocal relationship
  Ex. your parents make you shovel your driveway
• Complex hunter-gatherer groups because there are elders/possessions
• Uruk

Question 5

Equality matching

Answer 5

-Reciprocity
- You are both on the same level

Question 6

Market pricing

Answer 6

• Bartering
• Strangers
• high valuable goods

Question 7

Kahoon - 1895 BCE

Answer 7

• Temple made for higher people

Question 8

when was Kahoon built

Answer 8

1895 BCE

Question 9

what was Kahoon

Answer 9

• a worker village, for people building a temple for high people
• Egyptian society was organised as one big Authority ranking (one big company)

Question 10

what did the workers keep helping build the temple

Answer 10

• They would need to go to the temple every day to get food to keep them under/rely on authority
• Everyone had a job
• When it was off season and you couldn’t make crops, they would build
• If you are fired you are killed, no replacement job

Question 11

what made the Kahoon workers isolated/ keep them from starting higheracy

Answer 11

• there was no place to store water of food (you could have better blongings than others)
• Would get bread and beer, just enough to keep them alive
  -There was no common area (social control)

Question 12

what would the elite class of Kahoon use for money

Answer 12

The elite class would use the bread and beer like money being able to barter because they had so much

Question 13

when was the The Bronze Age Collapse

Answer 13

1200 BC

Question 14

what was the The Bronze Age Collapse

Answer 14

• Everyone was using bronze for their weapons
• Whole cities were depopulated
• Invasion, drought, fammon

Question 15

If societies were organised like one big company why might they have been at greater risk of complete collapse?

Answer 15

• If you keep all your eggs in one basket, there is no backup up
• One vertical structure to organized society and if it falls there is no backup system

Question 16

In Greece they traded..

Answer 16

money

Question 17

the development of money

Answer 17

1. started as Chunks of silver, a camonity, nothing special (barter money)
2. Then they started imprinting silver (coins)

Question 18

why did people trust silver as valuable

Answer 18

People trust that silver has value because it made nice things like jewellery

Question 19

how did coins change money value

Answer 19

• Coins became more valuable than the silver (money)
• Coins made for simply exchange
• The value of coins is shown though being able to compare completely unrelated stuff (ex. Shampoo is 10 coins, phone is 1,000 coins) you can now tell how much value each item holds because you are comparing it to the sample variable

Question 20

Silver VS silver coins

Answer 20

• The elite class in egypt traded standardised chunks of metal for luxury goods
• Silver will be used for what its made of, silver coins will be used for there worth

Question 21

Voluntary Control (IOY)

Answer 21

• Using the “I OWE YOU” in society through coins
  If you buy 10 dollar shoes you expect a reaction worth of 10 dollars
  People stick to the “i owe you” because everyone wants society to owe them more

Question 22

Money was invented in

Answer 22

First coins Lydian money: 600 BC
Then brought Athens : 545-515 BCE
Athenian Golden Age: 400s BCE

Question 23

what did money allow…

Answer 23

Money brings a hierarchy through

(strangers where a trade off can happen without needed to even speak about it (buying coffee from the coffee shop)

You don’t need to have a personal
relationship with anyone

Money allows us with so much freedom, by letting us decide how we live

Money allows you the option to get something, creates lots of ideas and diversity

Tristan calls money the greatest tech invented for strangers trading with strangers

Question 24

Money helped cities thrive by…

Answer 24

• creating more people in power (horizontal organisation)
• greater freedom to choose how u want to serve/offer other people
• Allows empires to grow bigger then they ever have before

Question 25

Aristotle

Answer 25

He criticised money, as it gave the poorer people a another kind of hierarchy

The higher elite people want there to be one hierarchical pyramid

Merchtains gaining power could take power from the original aristocrats

Question 26

life style of Mediaeval europe

Answer 26

• Everyone had their jobs
• Village scale
• They never had money
• The lord was incharge, has the responsibilities to protect/laws the village, the villagers serve the lord by providing goods

Question 27

whats coins were in what cities

Answer 27

• Copper coins were in the biggest cities
• Silver in the smaller cities

Question 28

After the roman empire collapsed, europe returned to being …

Answer 28

a non-monetary or very primitive society

Question 29

Feudal estates relied on these 3 of fikes models…

Answer 29

communal sharing
equity matching
authority ranking