Talk:Cultural Anthropology/Social Stratification, Power and Conflict

Glossary Terms
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Terms List by Helena Wayne

Animism: Belief that inanimate objects such as trees, rocks, cliffs, hills, and rivers were animated by spiritual forces or beings

Interpretive Approach: A style of analysis that looks at the underlying symbolic and cultural interconnections within a society

Totemism: The system of thought that associates particular social groups with s specific animal or plant species

Spirit Familiar: A spirit that has developed a close bond with the shaman

Speaking in Tongues: The phenomenon of speaking in an apparently unknown language, often in an energetic and fast-paced way

Monotheism: The belief in one, single, god Sympathetic Magic: Any magical rite that relies on supernatural powers to produce its outcome, without working through a specific supernatural being such as a spirit, demon, or god

Fundamentalist: People belonging to conservative religious movements that advocate a return to fundamental or traditional principles

Secular Worldview: A worldview that does not accept the supernatural as influencing current people's lives

Rite of Passage: A life cycle ritual that marks a person's transition from one social state to another (WayneHelena)

World Religions: Religion that claim to be universally significant to all people (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam)

Trance: A semi-conscious state typically brought on by hypnosis, ritual drumming and singing, or hallucinogenic drugs LGBT Community: The LGBT community consists of people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender

Prejudice: Is a set up, but not proven, people can have about a certain race, ethnicity, gender, job, and many more topics. A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

Money: Money is an asset that transforms services and goods into a currency everyone is able to pay with

Conflict: A form of friction and disagreement between different social individuals or groups

Categorize: When a person categorizes something, they use their knowledge to put an object or a person into a certain category

Self-Help Groups: Exist to support people who suffer from an illness, loss, addiction, or any kind of personal crisis. People in Self-Help Groups normally meet on a weekly basis and support each other emotionally

Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Montgomery Bus Boycott was caused by segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama causing African Americans to protest and refuse to ride the bus

CEO: The Chief Executive Officer has the highest rank in a company and controls all the departments

The "Untouchables": The Untouchables are the lowest group in the Hindu-Caste-System and therefore are considered impure and get barred from society in India

"The American Dream": "The American Dream" portrays that anyone can reach their dream if they work for it hard enough

Ascribed Status: Social status an individual is either assigned at birth or assumes involuntarily later in life. Neither chosen or learned; but assigned

Achieved Status: The social position/reputation earned during one's lifetime

Nation State: A political unit consisting of a self-governing state inhabited predominantly by people of mutual culture, history, and language

Interpersonal Power: The ability of one individual to impose his or her will onto another individual

Organizational Power: Highlights the ways that individuals and social units can limit the actions of others in particular social settings

Structural Power: Organizes social settings and allocates social labor

Taxonomy: A branch of science that encompasses the description, identification, nomenclature, and classification of organisms

Economic Conflict: Occurs when a disagreement arises regarding the distribution of wealth of a state or a nation-state

Military Conflict: Occurs when two or more opposing nations attempt to dispute conflicts by using physical force and violence

Religious-based Conflict: Occurs between two or more religious groups, often because a large group attempts to take over a smaller group

Clubs: An organized group of people who meet together for a purpose

Discrimination: Treating others differently depending on race, ethnicity, religion, and other factors

Race: A concept of putting people into certain categories based on a number of combined factors, such as skin color, ancestry, genetics, or social/cultural traits

Tradition: Something that is passed through generations, usually done once a year, and at a certain time

Friend/Friendship: A person who you know and with whom you share a mutual affection

Cooperatives: A group of people that own or run, together, a farm, business, or some other organization

Racism: Racial prejudice or discrimination

Caste System: A division of society based on differences of wealth, inherited rank, privilege, profession, occupation, or race

Shudras: The lowest caste in the Indian culture, made up of laborers

Advocacy Groups: A group of people who share their support of a cause or proposal

Chiefdom: A system of political organization where the chief is the highest rank that can be achieved. The chief holds the formal leadership of the society

Persuasion: The act of persuading. Being able to convince others to do your will

Kaplang2 (discuss • contribs) 19:41, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Social Groups: people sharing the social relation.

Friend: Someone whom you know and share a bond of mutual affection.

Club: a group of people who meet regularly for a shared purpose.

Counter Culture: a subculture who's values differ greatly from the norm.

Coorperative: an economic group who's members share profits and authority.

Self-help groups: individuals who come together to overcome personal adversity.

Racialization: the social, economic, and political processes of transforming the population into races, creating the social construct of race. Kaplang2 (discuss • contribs) 19:41, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Caste System: a system which sets you social standing at birth.

Segregation: The exclusion of groups of people from certain aspects of society.

Social Stratification: The inequalities between different groups of people withing the same culture.

Marxism-the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of materialism and communism. --arais4 (discuss • contribs) 21:06, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Kinship: relationship by blood

Club: an organization of a group of people, typically a group of members who meet regularly and for a specific cause

Cooperatives: form of economic group whose members share their profits and benefits they often pay a large role in a local community

Baptism: a holy sacrament symbolizing rebirth or new life

Counterculture: way of life or set of attitudes opposed to by prevailing social norm

Reverse Racism: racism towards the historically dominant group (whites)

Power: measure of person’s ability to control the environment around them, including behavior of other people

Bushman: people that move around a lot

Chiefdom: a group that is led by one person known as the chief

Privilege: social theory that has a particular person/group has special advantages/rights

Shudras: working class laborers

Brahmins: socially or culturally superior person, teacher, or priest

Gender typing: process by which a child becomes aware of his/her gender and starts behaving in that socially constructed acceptable way of the gender--Palmak (discuss • contribs) 22:17, 28 November 2017 (UTC)palmak

Ethnicity-social classification used to create groups based on cultural features such as religion, language, dress, food, family and art.

Ascribed Status-A social status that is assignment to a person at birth or assumed in the course of their life vaznatalie

Achieved status-social position that a person takes on consciously that reflects their ability and merit

Caste system-system of social stratification that divides people into groups and allows the higher up castes to control the rest of the castes/society (example: India)

Nation-Group of people sharing history, culture and ethnicity

Nation-state-A self-governing state inhabited by people mostly sharing culture, history and language

Nationalities/Nationalism-sense of belonging to a particular nation that comes with birth (loyalty and devotion)

Persuasion-belief/set of beliefs usually religious or political

Tradition-the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.

Conflict-result of oppression, opposition or disagreement of needs, values or interests between individuals/groups/cultures.

Social Network - social structure made of nodes and their relationships Tane4wwu (discuss • contribs) 03:37, 28 November 2017 (UTC) tane4wwu

Discrimination - making a distinction of race, religion or group and treating those individuals differently

Segregation - the physical separation of people based on culture, race or class

Money - Source of power, usually a physical object such as paper used to pay for goods or services

Friendship - a bond of mutual affection with another individual (not familial)

Self-help Groups - a group of individuals working together to achieve common goals and overcome personal adversities, usually in the form of meetings within schools, churches, homes, community centers, or schools

Stratification - the arrangement or classification of something into different groups

Self-ascription - to recognize a quality as ones own

Taxonomy - a scheme of classification

Race - a concept that organizes people into groups based on certain physical traits that are thought to reflect fundamental and innate differences

Racialization - the social, economic, and political processes of transforming the population into races and creating racial meanings

Diplomatic conflict - happens when different countries do not have compatible interests

Racism - the belief that racism is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

Organizational Power - coming together in an organization to get something done that could not be done individually

Nuclear Proliferation - the spread of all things nuclear, especially weapons

Repression - inhibiting or restraining the freedom of an individual or group of people

Persuasion - through both reasoning and argument, manipulating another person to receive the benefit

Disguised Discrimination - discrimination that is harder to identify than explicit discrimination because there is an effort being made to hide it Shonera (discuss • contribs) 20:04, 28 November 2017 (UTC)Shonera Kinship- Blood relationship.

Social stratification- Social stratification is a kind of social differentiation whereby a society groups people into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power.

Discrimination- the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

Segregation - the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means

Religion- the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

Political organization- any organization that involves itself in the political process, including political parties, non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups and special interest groups.

Egalitarian- relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.Merritto (discuss • contribs) 04:57, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Taxonomy- the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematic.

Tradition- the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.

Free agency- a person who is self-determining and is not responsible for his or her actions to any authority

Fringe culture- a culture that grows and expands into a counter culture that is in opposition to mainstream norms

Reverse racism- the unfounded idea that the majority of a population that is in control of that culture is the victim of institutionalized and systemic oppression due to there inability to oppress the minority as well as they used to in the past.

Social group: two or more people who interact with one another, sharing similar characteristics, and share a sense of unity.

Clubs: a group of people organized for a common purpose.

Brown v. Board of Education: Supreme court case of 1954 that declared state laws for establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional.flannes (discuss • contribs) 15:32, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Important Political News: reporting on politics in the U.S. is inclusive to the U.S. news about other cultures are only considered when the U.S. is involved

Government: a small group of people that represents the majority to provide regulation and order, make decisions, and holds most of the power compared to the majority that they represent

Law: rules set by a legal authority

Religious-based Conflict: Religious-based conflict occurs between two religious groups, often when a larger, more powerful group attempts to take over a smaller one. There are currently at least nineteen areas of major religious conflict going on throughout the world; the more notable ones include, but are not limited to, Israel and Palestine. Although some of the world’s most gruesome wars have been fought on the basis of religion, religious-based conflict is not always violent. It is not uncommon for religious groups to be at odds with one another, directly or indirectly, due to the tendency of each religion to assume the position of being the sole truth. Religious conflict is also a complex phenomenon that involves a combination of domains that oppose other religious ideology or mortality, power, personality, space or place, and group identity. But these contested areas should not be confused with enabling factors or conditions which can be political, social, economic, cultural and psychological.

Structural-functionalism: Takes into account all the different structures of society and shows that the functions of these structures maintain social order and power

Age-grades: an association of age that defines who is initiated into adulthood together

Types of Societies: bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states are considered considered societies due to the management in who controls food and all other resources

Non-centralized Political Systems: When specific individuals have power over the resources and institutions within a community

Centralized Political Systems: When specific individuals have power over the resources and institutions within a community

Structural Power: a power that organizes the context of social and individual action taking place

Political Power: the choices made through power in order to create or maintain goodness in the community

Node- The people who are in your social network Shaman- Religious leaders who communicate with the spirit world Caste- members of Indian society are ranked based on their family and have little mobility Open discussion- type of therapy where people talk about their problems with others experiencing similar troubles Prestige- thoughts held toward a person or group Discrimination- treating someone poorly or differently because of his or her race class or gender Club- people with similar interests who meet to discuss or partake in an activity Power- social or political status that puts you above someone else Racism- discrimination based on race Prejudice- Thoughts held toward a group or person Bangwa- A group of people in Africa Counter-Culture- A group of people who go against social norms Reverse Racism- racism experienced by the historically privileged group Institutional Racism- racial discrimination that has become normal behavior in a society--Summers4 (discuss • contribs) 02:15, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Social Group: a band of people outside of the domestic unit relating on grounds other than kinship, although kinship relationships may exist

Club: a group of people organized for a common purpose, especially a group that meets regularly

Social Stratification: hierarchal relationships between different groups based on unequal access to wealth, power, and prestige. Usually based on a certain characteristic like class standing or race.

Discrimination: the intentional treatment of a group in a way that is worse than the other groups are treated. Usually against a minority of some form.

Segregation: one practice of discrimination where human groups are separated based on attributes or qualities.

Community: a group of people having a shared identity, geography, language, culture, and/or some other commonality

Status: an individual’s position in society

Racialization: the social, economic, and political processes of transforming the population into races and creating racial meanings; always occurs under a particular set of cultural and historical circumstances; different societies racialize groups differently; the processes of ascribing ethnic or racial identities to a relationship, social practice, or group that did not identify itself as such

Achieved Status: refers to the status level an individual in society has earned through work, education, luck, and/or social climbing. Achieved status is changeable throughout one's life. An example would be the status one earns when they become a doctor after years of studying and preparation. Having the credibility of being a doctor is a higher achieved status than the credibility of being a medical school student. Adolphma (discuss • contribs) 22:58, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Ascribed Status: a position in society that is fixed, often assigned at birth

Salvage paradigm: The act of collecting as much information you can about a culture and their way of life, before the culture or people who hold the culture died out. To preserve the history of people who are dying out, in most cases these are indigenous people.

Colonialism: In which a group of people with more power, travels to another place and takes over another group and their land. People with power will most likely strip the land of Natural Resources, exploit the work of the native people in the area, and try to either enslave or kill the native population. Or they will attempt to integrate them into their own culture which they deem superior.

Cultural Appropriation: In which a person takes a specs or parts from another culture not their own and makes a joke or a mockery of it.

Social Power: The Ability to achieve goals even if other people oppose those goals.

・Self-help groups consist of individuals coming together to achieve common goals and overcome personal adversities. Members talk about their personal experiences and problems such as a disease or addiction. Members can reduce their feeling of isolation by discussing.

・Social stratification is hierarchical relationships between different groups, usually based off inequality and access to wealth, power, and prestige. By Marx, the social class depends on birth. If the parents are poor, the child becomes poor too.

・Racialization is the social, economic, and political processes of transforming the population into races and creating racial meanings. Different societies racialize groups differently.

・A caste is a system of social stratification found in India as well as other parts of the world dividing people into categories based on moral purity and pollution. Untouchables are the lowest in the Indian social stratification and treated very poorly often segregated from the rest of society.

・Band Society is a foraging group and the smallest group of political organization ranging anywhere from 20 to 200 people but typically consisting of about 80 people. Most of the people within this group are relatives either by birth or marriage. ・Persuasion is a power based on verbal argument and the act of influencing others into adopting an idea. The ability to persuade is highly coveted and is often associated with powerful people in many societies.

・Diplomatic conflict arises when the interests of different countries are not compatible. Conflict becomes apparent when a government attempts to complete an objective even at the expense of a close nation or a nation involved in the objective. Ex, Cold War

・Religious-based conflict occurs between two religious groups, often when a larger, more powerful group attempts to take over a smaller one.

・Interpersonal Power is the ability of one individual to impose his or her own will on another individuals. This is the power of one individual "over" another as opposed to an individual's power to do something, the capacity of an actor to attain some goal.

・Physical force is using physical coercion as a means to gain power and control over others. In new era of nuclear weapons and WMD, the threat of violence or physical force can be just as effective as actually perpetuating the violence.

Didactic: Intended to share information

Sociologist: Study of development, organization and functioning of human society

Affection: a feeling of caring for someone, having a attachment to them

Organizations: a group of people with a similar purpose involving, business and society

Terminology: a groups used in a business, art, science, or special subject

Counterculture: a culture with values other cultures in an established society might find odd or different

Social stratification: society’s categorization of its people into groups based off wealth, income, race, education and power

Matriarchal: a type of society where a women is the head of a family or a tribe

Illuminate: to brighten with light

Ascribe: to believe something is the cause of something else

Stigma: disgrace of someone’s reputation

Kinship: the relationship between kin, or relatives

Norms: standards which regulate acceptable behaviors

Fringe Culture: (similar to counterculture) defines values in opposition to mainstream norms

Hierarchical: people having been arranged by ability, economic and/or social standing

Pastoral: lifestyle based on livestock raising

Stigma: a mark of shame

Innate: qualities present in an individual from birth

Genocide: deliberate destruction of a people because of race, culture, or political standing

Ascribed Status: social status assigned at birth or involuntarily assumed later in life

Baptism: religious ritual where individual is submerged in water to signify admittance into community

Counterculture: a subculture whose values and norms differ substantially from mainstream society (Lampheb (discuss • contribs) 04:51, 11 December 2017 (UTC))

Self-help Group: a group of people coming together to reach goals

Lampheb (discuss • contribs

Social Stratification
i edited the first two sentences. the first sentence was edited to flow more smoothly. the second sentence i used lower instead of low because it made sense that way. --Giovanni Del Valle (talk) 01:46, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I added more concerning the social stratification concerning men over women, including societies which are matriarchal and differentiated between the two. --Aagardk (talk) 20:42, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Ascribed Status
I added an example of ascribed status. vaznatalie

In the first sentence I added a coma to make the sentence read more clearly. Dachenhausen4129

I did a couple of changes to this section. First i put it as a separate section from the achieved status to emphasize the difference between the two. I also reorganized the subsections so that it is reflected in the table of contents. I included a formal definition of ascribed status for easier understanding.

I also added into the defination at the beginning, adding a ..."for instance" not sure if it's justifiable or not Craiga2 (talk)

I separated the written list of different status types into a bulleted list so that it is easier to read. Lianalewis (talk) 06:22, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I changed the wording of the first sentence to be more descriptive than the broad terms that were used prior to my edit. Forshaw8176 (talk)

Race
I added a definition of racism Healowl (talk) 03:34, 5 March 2009 (UTC) I am responding to the additional information added to my section on race, under ascribed status. Thank you to the person who added the supplementary information about racism. I felt it was a good topic to add in, as it additionally defines the status of race anthropologically. Yes, this helps to clarify the topic quite a bit!

I made the picture here bigger so you can see what it is :) Whitee7 (talk) 05:12, 8 March 2009

I made a separate heading for Racism so that it was easier to identify within the Race category. Troeppl0637

I added a prominent example of racism to the page. I hope it helps clear the air about racism. Herrion2680 (talk) 22:36, 8 March 2009

I fixed the tenses that were used. They were present and should have been past. --Robirds0244 (talk) 08:36, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I added some additional information to the definition of race. --Druckman4161 (talk) 13:28, 9 March 2009

I changed a date in the racism section concerning Rosa Park's bus seat refusal. It said 1960's but it happened in 1955. [allumbt]

I went through and added some more indepth information on racism that includes discrimination and prejudice, as well as bringing light to the dominant and minority group aspects of racism. Robertf3 (talk) 17:36, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Ethnicity
I edited the quote in this section. The period was on the inside of the parenthesis but it belongs on the outside. --Maurer7597 (talk) 04:15, 9 March 2009 (UTC) maurer7597 melissa maurer

I refined the content of this section to make the information flow easier. I also fixed some grammatical errors and maintained the objectivity of Wikibooks. I added in an anchor in the article that connects to the bottom of the page where the references are located. That way, the reader can click it and be transferred to the citation information.

I added a wikipedia link to ethnicity and made a few grammatical changes.

I changed the reference number from [5] to [6] to link to the proper reference.

Thank you very much, I was struggling a lot with the HTML aspect of this in terms of adding links and the anchors. -Craig Gorder

I reorganized some of the content so that it flows better and added a couple things to the section. --Druckman4161 (talk) 13:59, 9 March 2009

I changed the overall structure of the sentence and added further detail to the sentence. I did so because I felt the statement lacked some defining quality and details so I added what I thought would make it more correct.Underwk4 (talk) 04:34, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Caste System
i edited the grammar of this section. original opening sentence made hinduism a country. reworded awkward sentences. --Giovanni Del Valle (talk) 01:55, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I deleted the repetition of the Dalit picture because it was redundant. Douglas772727 (talk) 07:22, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I added a wiki-link for caste system, added a few things, and changed sentence structure. (Scar8719)

I rearranged some sentences to allow better transitions and added a bit to the overall content --Druckman4161 (talk) 18:04, 9 March 2009

I fixed a few tense errors in this section.clues1478

I fixed a few grammatical errors as well as restructured some sentences to make them easier to understand.--Marianna White (talk) 07:02, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I Changed the tense from present to past in the discussion about other countries practicing Caste-Systems. Many of the countries mentions no longer practice this system and is not apparent anymore in their culture.

Religion
I contirubted to this section by making some of the details about baptism more clear and accurate. User:adamsk9

I added this section because I thought it was an interesting way to look at ascribed status. (talk)

I added to this section because religion is also used as a power tool at the same time it is used in the separation of church and state. DycheJ (talk) 04:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Nation, Nationalities and Nation-State
I made some minor spelling corrections, then cleaned up the sentence defining nationality so that the meaning was clearer. Laurenhuff (talk)

I changed the headings to bold so that they are easier to differentiate from the text. I also rearranged some sentences to make the content flow a little better. --Druckman4161 (talk)

Gender Typing
I adjusted fender typing by saying that it is known as the process in which a child starts becoming aware of their gender. I also included a possibility of where it came from or why it is. --Palmak (discuss • contribs) 00:37, 25 November 2017 (UTC)Palmak

Achieved Status
I just made some minor detail and grammar changes, and I also thought that something should be mentioned about the contrast between achieved and ascribed status so I just put in a little bit about that.

I added a few details to the "conflict" section.

I just change around the wording so it flowed better.

I changed the wording at the end of the paragraph to say what achieved status is not, to therefore not describe a different section by saying what ascribed status is. Forshaw8176 (talk)

I fixed some punctuation, capitalization, and spelling errors. I also added some more information about Chris Gardner and The Pursuit of Happyness. --Robirds0244 (talk) 08:29, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Education and Employment
I added wiki-links for Associate's degree, Bachelor's degree, and Master's degree.

Income
I tried to keep the general idea of this paragraph, but did change it a bit so it made more sense to me. You can change it back if you think it makes less sense.

I also deleted the last sentence because I don't think that people who already have money are generally less motivated than those that don't start out with a lot of money. People always want more!

I moved the wiki-link to within the first sentence of the paragraph to improve the appearance of this section.

Cultural Example of Achieved Status
i added some links to India's caste system classes --Giovanni Del Valle (talk) 01:36, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I tweaked your first sentence a little to flow a little better. I added a few words and changed "yours" to "ones" to help keep it third person. Minor I know, but I thought it helped the flow!

I thought that the caste system was really inflexible and people remain in the same caste they are born into for the rest of their lives? I know in the U.S people can work to attain higher social status, but I'm pretty sure the caste system does not work the same way. Do you have any sources to back this up? I deleted the part about working up to a new caste, sorry!

Isn't the caste system an example of ascribed status anyway? Maybe you could copy and paste it into that category so all your work isn't wasted?

The caste system is an example of ascribed status, as stated above... I added an example of achieved status in addition. Yeah, perhaps you could move it to the ascribed status section? It's good info, just in the wrong spot. --Druckman4161 (talk) 18:30, 9 March 2009

Added the point that the actual odds of a person being able to work from lower class to upper class are very small Monierc (talk) 21:41, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Power intro
I deleted the questions at the end of the paragraph because it seemed too text-bookie.

I made a few grammatical changes.

Types of Power
I added the word was to a sentence in "money" section, because the sentence did not make sense without it. --Giovanni Del Valle (talk) 01:29, 9 March 2009 (UTC) -looks good, thanks for the change.

I made some spelling corrections. Laurenhuff (talk)

I made a wiki-link to "Harijan."

Physical Force
I fixed some punctuation and helped fix a couple of run-on sentences. --Robirds0244 (talk) 08:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Added some information about the new era of force in terms of a country, aka nuclear arsenal. --Graebez (talk) 10:15, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Fame
I added a link to ethnographic. --White5975 (talk) 00:09, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Tradition
I changed the spacing for the title so it matched the rest of the section--White5975 (talk) 00:00, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

There was a bit of punctuation that needed to be fixed, so I did that. --Robirds0244 (talk) 08:36, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Power: Money
I'm changing some minor grammar problems and sentence structure to make it more cohesive.Luna6045 (talk) 04:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC) I changed most of the paragraph that someone put up about money before me because it seemed very biased and it only came from a limited cultural perspective. I made it a bit more open and added some facts about money that I thought were interesting. I changed some minor grammar errors.clues1478 I changed some of the punctuation, sentence structure, and there were some repetive words that I took out and replaced with others. --Robirds0244 (talk) 08:24, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Kinds of Social Power
There were certain unnecessary commas that I took out but other than that it was really good!

I bolded the three subtopics to make it more catchy to the eye. user:wilber6199

The subsection about Interpersonal Power cites text sources (Weber 1968, Dahl 1957, Simon 1953...) which is great, but the full citations aren't listed on the page. Can the original author supply those references? user:Rosen1347

!Kung
I changed a few awkward sentences.

I changed a spelling error, and put a link to the article, Eating Christmas in the Kalahari by Lee.--Ely4205 Contribution (talk) 00:20, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Types of Conflict
I removed the name tags from the text that I contributed under Diplomatic and Economic Conflict.

I added a link to the definition of Shiite's --White5975 (talk) 00:15, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I just cleaned up a tiny bit in the paragraph of Iraq.

Social Groups
I added more to the broad definition of social groups. sandlij

Types of Political Organization
I went back and added wiki-links to band society, tribe, and bushmen.

I added a little more information about chiefdoms and states.

Work Groups and Cooperatives
I added a better definition and a little information about cooperatives to help differentiate between them and work groups. sandlij

Countercultural Groups
I added the group of youth gangs and street gangs to the examples of counterculture groups and described them. sandlij

I added the Body Modification group in to the counterculture group section because I forgot to include them in an earlier post. sandlij

I removed the group of youth gangs and street gangs as they are more oriented towards carrying out organized crime for profits than for "opposing the dominant form of a social system" - that is, it seems less a culture oriented movement, as most counter culture groups are.

I added information of the counter culture of the 1960s and 1970s as it is one of the best known examples of counter culture, and added additional forms of body modification and body modification communities to the entry on body modification, making it more comprehensive.

Kelleya3 (talk) 07:17, 1 May 2009 (UTC)kelleya3

Self-Help Groups
I made some grammatical and spelling corrections to this section. Clampittj

Online Communities
I added the online dating services, an interesting and significant group. Clampittj