Week 3.1 social and community psychology

<p>Neoclassical economics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How people make rational decisions on scarce resources to ‘get the best deal’. Rational, preferences, for maximisation of utility</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People should pick the best option and anything else is an error</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subsistence: Getting enough to live Getting food from the world = hunting and gathering (mobile life –nomadic)(See Burch, 1988) + Husbandry -raising crops and animals (static –specialised) Stay in one place = specialise = surplus for more complex exchanges</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sedentary or mobile: Do they have to move around? Sedentary means: frequent interactions less avoidance more monitoring fixed dwellings Needing cooperative workers and alliances Needing commitment from others Storage and protection of stores and implements Inheritance Violence management Leadership Resource Issues Type of crop and method of cultivation Delay in crop maturation and utilization (Woodburn, 1988) Storage Inheritance Risk management Sharing and distribution</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>-Potentially those in a barter can walk away and not interact again -Develops good knowledge of others and social skills for negotiation -Both parties are usually pleased with barter (even if they ostensibly complain) because they could walk away if displeased -If conflict occurs there is no higher authority to adjudicate; solutions lie with the participants -Develops trust and long-term relationships -Different items are exchanged: -Many items get moved around a community Provides a flexible contact focus for people -Can be used to prevent any further social relationship</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>-Shadow Economies -Odd Jobs -Crime -Community systems -Tied to: Opportunities, History, Culture, Politics -Secrecy often involved with all its properties -Engages weak social network ties -Engages kin network ties -Less control over conditions of work</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reduced common land (like enclosure laws)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>We can get strangers to do almost anything for us</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rarely need family or a strong relationship or trust to get things done</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Individualization</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Competition and entrepreneurship</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Labour</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Labour, Land, and Money</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The bureaucracy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contracts and relationships</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People become more individualistic</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is based on capitalism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Their labor power</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encouraging larger families</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preventing relationships from forming</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure the flexible money goes further</p> Signup and view all the answers