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Hina Anthro
Hina Anthro
Lahore Campus
Psychology Department
Anthropology
Class: BS Psychology
Section: “A”
Example:
Wealth inequality
Treatment and responsibility inequality
Political inequality
Life inequality
Membership inequality
Living in an unequal society causes stress and status anxiety, which may damage your
health. In more equal societies people live longer, are less likely to be mentally ill or
obese and there are lower rates of infant mortality.
Inequality affects how you see those around you and your level of happiness. People in
less equal societies are less likely to trust each other, less likely to engage in social or
civic participation, and less likely to say they're happy.
Types of Advantages:
Power- is the ability to carry out your will despite resistance and is the result of the
convergence of like-minded individuals who share ideologies and values and can, therefore,
exert disproportionate amounts of power, far more than ordinary individuals.
Prestige (respect or regard)- meaning someone or some group is accorded with particular respect
or honour.
Types of Society:
Egalitarian; contains no social groups with greater or lesser access to economic resources,
power or prestige.
Rank; does not have very unequal access to economic resources or power but they do contain
social groups with unequal access to prestige.
EGALITARIAN SOCIETY:
Egalitarian Societies contain no special groups with greater or lesser access to economic
resources, power or prestige.
Egalitarian does not mean that all people within such societies are the same. There will
always be differences among individuals in age and gender and such abilities or traits as
hunting skill, perception, health, creativity, physical prowess, attractiveness and
intelligence.
Egalitarian societies can be found not only among forager such as! Kung, Mbuti,
Australian aborigines, Inuit and Ache, but also among horticulturalists and pastoralists.
RANK SOCIETY:
Is one that ranks individuals in terms of their genealogical distance from the chief.
Closer relatives of the chief have a higher rank or social status than more distant ones.
When individuals and groups rank about equally, competition for positions of leadership
may occur.
CLASS SOCIETY :
Class- is a category of persons who all have about the same opportunity to obtain
economic resources, power and prestige.
We call class systems open if there is some possibility of moving from one class to
another.
The social status or prestige of a family is generally correlated with the occupation and
wealth of the head of the family.
CASTE SYSTEM:
Is a ranked group in which membership is determined at birth and marriage and is restricted
limited to members of one’s caste
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