Successful Society: Communal Life

What does community really mean? The definition of community is, “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.” I believe community is more than just a definition. Community means sticking together and accepting those within the community

Different cultures have different ways of experiencing aspects of their culture. There are many similarities and differences between the Yanomamo and Samoan peoples. Cultural differences and similarities need to be paid attention to. Also, the similarities need to be celebrated. The Samoans and Yanomamo have different and similar subsistence methods, division of labor, occupational specialization, exchange of goods, and the economic link to power. The differences and similarities between the Yanomamo and Samoan peoples are striking and deserve thorough examination.

The central theme of this weeks reading is to give us insight on the Natives of the Northwest Coast social structure and how they were the outstanding exception to the stereotypes that hunting and gathering cultures or fish and gathering cultures in their case are classified by sparse possessions, small egalitarian bands and simple technologies. In their location there was a limited supply of food; less work was required to meet the needs of subsistence of the population rather than in farming communities of comparable size the food unused by the Northwest Coast people encourage development of social stratification. There usually was a ruling elite that controlled use of rights to communal property, with the “house society” for a form of social

For this research paper, I chose the population of Native Hawaiians. Native Hawaiians have some of the most interesting and unique cultural norms, and unique language and a strong agricultural system. I chose to research the Native Hawaiians because I have family that are full Native Hawaiian, I do not know much about the population and I have never been there. I have always been interested in the Hawaiian islands and what they have to offer to the locals and year-round tourists. With this paper I want to explore the language, culture, the agricultural system, health and elders.

With the expansion of Australia urbanization occurred to improve the living conditions as well as providing more opportunities for jobs in factories, but in some cases urbanisation only made things worse specifically the poorer and more vulnerable people in

Hawaiian Culture went through many rapid changes between the arrival of the first Europeans in the late 1700s and the fall of the Kingdom in 1893. With the quick transition from many Chiefdoms to a European styled monarchy, then lastly being enveloped by a larger democracy, the Hawaiian people experienced significant and sudden changes in their social relations of production. First a description of pre-kingdom Hawaii to the unifying conquests of the first Hawaiian king, Kamehameha, will be looked at analyzing the social relations of production. This is followed by a similar analysis of The Kingdom of Hawaii and how the social relations of production where effected by the conquest. The kahuna’s position in the relations of production will be

Chapter Ten: An Aspiring Society covers the social and religious reordering that occurred in the 1700’s in the colonies. The norms about the consumption of alcohol were challenged, there was a leap in time and challenges to established religion swept the colonies during the Great Awakening.

This mode of production deals with the clan system on the island and the way in which the members of each clan support each other. Ward describes a kinship mode of production on page 147, “Groups of sisters-in-law cooperate in labor exchanges particularly for feasting and farm work. When a woman has obligations or troubles her sisters-in-law are her best allies.” Clans survive by helping each other obtain food and other goods, providing services for each other, and even helping to raise the other women’s children. This kinship mode of production also comes into play during the feasts where all of the islanders share their food. However, more honor and goods are given to the elders and chiefs of the community than to the normal clan

"Instead of 'exploitation,' growing out of the nature of production, our industrial evolution shows certain evils of competition imposed by an 'unfair' menace." Since Marx was wrong to assert that ownership was the source of oppression, Commons held that appropriation of the means of production was no answer to the laborers' needs. (Dawley, pg 181-183)

Pacific Islanders’ way of life is determined by their outlook on life, a perspective influenced by how religion, the inhabited land, the sea and all that exists around them interconnect. Nature is seen as sacred. Living with it is a lifestyle in itself. Their stories and myths, their traditions and numerous ceremonies held at specific times, their language, the way they use natural resources,

On the contrary to Pecchenino’s understanding of Tanner’s position, Tanner also recognizes the scarcity of resources. For Tanner, it is due to the scarcity of resources that a person is to learn to share some portion and give the part unconditionally to someone who is marginalized. This is because there certainly is a reward in the long run. That is, “The education and training supplied by welfare provision might be expected to push people progressively into higher tax-bracket incomes.”

Social structures are constraints that affect the lives of both the affluent and the indigent members of society.  Each society has its own set of social arrangements for example; class, gender and ethnicity are all constraints that each society has to deal with in one way or another.  One of the most fundamental of the social structures would be class.  Class structure is found in all societies and is the key source of economical inequality.  Members of different class groups start their lives with unequal opportunities.  This means that when someone is born into a poor household   they will undoubtedly remain in the same economical situation they began in.  Gender is another important

Colonisation of the Hawaiian Islands in the years following Captain James Cook’s landing in 1778 had a huge influence on the societal structure, the ruling system, and the gender roles within the community. With the old culture dismantled, a new one was built on the basis of Christian values, brought to Hawaii by the missionaries from New England. This essay will give a brief description of the colonisation of Hawaii, and then focus on the effects this process had on the societal structure, the monarchy, and the gender roles as were widely accepted in society, as well as how these changes affected other aspects of their culture. It will also briefly explore the effects of the expanding economy due to the opportunities the colonisers saw for growth and monetary gain.

Throughout the article it describes how due to the neo-liberal policies brought into action in the 1980s-1990s, the middle class were the ones to benefit. This therefore was the start of the increase of wage inequality between those of middle class, and those in working class. Which has continued to have effects on education directly and indirectly, which resume to be one of the problems in New Zealand education. The article advances to discuss how middle class have better access to the more popular high decile schools, due to lower socio-economical families being kept out of the zoning, which is drawn up by the schools. This is partly due to influences from other sectors, such as housing. Thrupp writes that there tends to be relationships between house prices and schools. Those houses near high decile schools tend to be more expensive houses, as those in middle class do not typically pursue those low decile schools. This leads to typically middle class living in that area, and attending the more popular schools as Thrupp describes. Later on in the article, Thrupp allows the consideration of funding for low decile schools, in comparison to those high decile schools. That although those low decile schools get more funding, they

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