Economic basis for social (human) development

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Consider the maquiladoras as an economic basis for social (human) development.  Look at all sides of the maquiladora phenomenon, go through all the pros and cons, look at the multiple perspectives, and then come to a carefully reasoned overall assessment of them. Remember, it is important to demonstrate to me that you understand the concepts and the case material. Do not use chapter 3 for the paper (you’ve already reflected on your main post), but rather discussed from the rest of the chapters. The paper should be several paragraphs and in detail with citations or sorces.

 

Explain the differences between a polygenic trait and a pleiotropic gene

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Explain the differences between a polygenic trait and a pleiotropic gene. Give an example of each. Why are these important to understand? 4). Explain the different ways replication works in DNA. What happens if the replication does not happen correctly? Give an anthropological example.

Discuss the impact that online shopping addiction

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Discuss the impact that online shopping addiction, digital hoarding, and online sexual addictions can have on the individual and the families involved. What are some types of treatments or interventions for individuals with one of these behavioral addictions? Locate at least two scholarly articles that discuss evidence-based interventions for these types of behavioral addictions and discuss the major findings.

Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development

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Choose one of the stages in Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development theory that you have experienced or are experiencing now. How do you feel about completing this stage? What impact did that difficult time have on your personality?

As a starting point, let’s consider what we know about the stage as a whole. Then, make the connection to one’s own life, explaining how values and experiences relate. Include meaningful words, symbols, and examples. A memorable day in one’s life during that period may be the moment of the climax of a key event or moment.

Sexual division of labor

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Describe (and compare and contrast) the gender or sexual division of labor of two different cultures that have two different modes of subsistence (from the four modes of subsistence described in this week’s reading; foraging, pastoralism, horticulture, or agriculture). You must choose the two societies from examples in the Week 3 textbook reading and you must name the two societies from the Week 3 textbook reading and cite them. How do your chosen examples of two different cultures show that subsistence systems are linked to cultural expectations about gender roles?

Residential segregation and gentrification

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1. Residential segregation and gentrification are interlocking urban inequalities that impact the health and well-being of marginalized populations around the country. Why is it important to consider these issues jointly and from a historical perspective?

2. How does an understanding of residential segregation provide insight into the process of gentrification and its consequences?

The scientific authority of ethnography

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Why does Mary Madden find Glasser and Bridgman’s approach to urban homelessness problematic?

1. Because it exoticizes the urban poor, constructing them as reminiscent of the “primitive” peoples who were so long the favored subjects of anthropology

2. Because it dehistoricizes poverty, neglecting questions about how and why homelessness comes about and thereby making it seem natural and inevitable

3. Because it appeals to the scientific authority of ethnography without being reflexive or critical about the ethnographer’s own role in urban power structures

4. All of the above

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What do Lyon-Callo and Hyatt mean when they say “…it appears to make little sense to conduct ethnographic studies focused on specific spaces or places when the issues confronting them are part of a larger web of global interconnections?”
Answers:1.

That many of the most significant challenges faced by urban communities are caused by capital flight from cities and across national borders – a process that is difficult to theorize or even document with a narrow ethnographic focus on the communities left behind

2.

That an ethnographic focus on one place, such a city or an urban neighborhood, can cause anthropologists to lose sight of crutical (especially economic) connections across places

3.

That community-based ethnographic research is becoming more and more difficult as neoliberalism changes the very meaning of “community” in the first place

4.

All of the above

What kind of urban change drove the anthropology of cities beginning in the 1970s, according to Mullings?
Answers:1.

Deindustrialization

2.

Public retrenchment

3.

Displacement

4.

All of the above

 

Low organizes her article through a series of parallel subtitles such as the sacred city, the fortress city, the modernist city, and the informational city. What is she trying to convey about the city through this discursive strategy?
Answers:1.

That the city is so complex and variegated that scholars in anthropology and across the disciplines are compelled to study them through a number of different windows

2.

That a city can take on a different overall character at particular moments in time

3.

That cities cannot be reduced to one aspect of human existence but embody the full scope of the human experience from faith to politics to economics to technology

4.

All of the above

Where in the course have we encountered an analysis similar to Carvy’s concept of racial moral panic?
Answers:1.

In the Morgen and Maskovsky article, which notes that welfare restructuring was facilitated by the construction of (especially black, female) welfare recipients as immoral, deviant and dysfunctional

2.

In the Wacquant article, which argues that “moral retraining” formed part and parcel of workfare and prisonfare working in tandem to rescript urban economic failure as moral and personal failure

3.

In the Valayden article, which argues that concepts of “moral degradation” are crucial to the form of racism he calls feralization

4.

All of the above

 

What does “racial feralization” have to do with cities?
Answers:1.

It has become a way for western military strategists to justify a campaign of permanent “counterinsurgency” in the Global South by positing its cities as wild, contaminated, out-of-control, feral

2.

It describes the way in which all cities are becoming less civilized

3.

It is reminiscent of Lefebvre’s description of the decline of the traditional city

 

What does Diren Valayden mean by “racial feralization?”
Answers:1.

A form of racism founded in a fundamental fear of catastrophic regression to less human state

2.

A concept of race with centuries-old roots that has been deployed in new ways in the last few decades

3.

A way of problematizing heterogeneous urban populations through the concepts of both race and risk

4.

All of the above

LeFebvre felt that the crisis of the traditional city was linked to another major planetary crisis. What was it?
The crisis of overpopulation
Answers:1.

The crisis of agrarian civiliation

2.

The crisis of urban crime

3.

The crisis of global warming

Cultural relativism

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A) ethnocentrism, glorification, and cultural relativism What is the difference between these perspectives and why does it matter to anthropology? Why might anthropologists avoid glorification, even though it involves making positive statements? How might an anthropologist (or anthropology student) be sure to maintain a culturally relativistic perspective? Can you think of any examples of these perspectives being applied in the “real world”? ALL POSTS must also address the following with a parenthetical citation: How does this relate to some other aspect of this week’s material? B) The Roma Respond to your readings and content relevant to the Roma. Consider one or more of the following questions: What makes their culture so hard to define? What aspects of Roma tradition and recent experience are referenced in the Vama Veche music video? What ethnocentric and glorifying perspectives of Roma culture are presented in the music video? ALL POSTS must also address the following with a parenthetical citation: How does this relate to some other aspect of this week’s material? You may also include a personal response (in a separate paragraph): What do you think about this now that you have learned more about their culture?

Cultural evolution

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Why is culture history a more apt term than cultural evolution: " Cultural evolution" implies that culture change is an external process whereas " culture history" implies that culture change is an internal process. "Cultural evolution" implies that cultural change is biologically driven whereas "culture history" implies that cultural change is politically driven. "Cultural evolution" implies that cultures change over time whereas "culture history" implies that cultures remain static. "Cultural evolution" implies that cultures improve over time whereas "culture history" implies that cultural change is neutral.

Transforming copper nuggets into archaeological tools

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Why was it necessary to reconstruct the process of transforming copper nuggets into archaeological tools to understand intentional burning in the past? What did the researchers and archeologists come to understand about how these ancient practices were carried out and what the practices meant to human lives?