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Larry Levan | |
Birth name | Lawrence Philpot |
Born | July 20, 1954 |
Died | November 8, 1992 | (aged 38)
Genres | Garage house[1] Club/Dance[1] House[1] Post-disco[1][2] |
Occupations | DJ, Music producer[1] |
Larry Levan | |
Birth name | Lawrence Philpot |
Born | July 20, 1954 |
Died | November 8, 1992 | (aged 38)
Genres | Garage house[1] Club/Dance[1] House[1] Post-disco[1][2] |
Occupations | DJ, Music producer[1] |
Larry Levan (born Lawrence Philpot, July 20, 1954 – November 8, 1992[3]) was a DJ best known for his decade-long residency at the New York City night club Paradise Garage, which has been described as the prototype of the modern dance club. He developed a cult following who referred to his sets as "Saturday Mass". Influential US DJ François Kevorkian credits Levan with introducing the dub aesthetic into dance music. Along with Kevorkian, Levan experimented with drum machines and synthesizers in his productions and live sets, ushering in an electronic, post-disco sound that presaged the ascendence of house music.[4]
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Levan got his start alongside DJ Frankie Knuckles at the Continental Baths,[3] as a replacement for the DJ from The Gallery, Nicky Siano. Levan's DJing style was influenced by Siano's eclectic style, and by The Loft's David Mancuso, who briefly dated Levan in the early 1970s. As Knuckles was still trying to make his way in the New York club scene, Levan became a popular attraction perhaps due to his "diva persona", which he developed in the city's notoriously competitive black drag "houses".[5]
At the height of the disco boom in 1977, Levan was offered a residency at the Paradise Garage. Although owner Michael Brody, who employed Levan at the defunct Reade Street, intended to create a downtown facsimile of Studio 54 catering to an upscale white gay clientele, Levan initially drew an improbable mix of streetwise blacks, Latinos, and punks.
Open only to a select membership and housed in an otherwise unadorned building on King Street in Greenwich Village, the club and Levan's DJing slowly engendered themselves into the mainstream. The DJ and programming director from WBLS, Frankie Crocker often mentioned the club on air and based his playlists around Levan's sets. The Richard Long & Associates Sound system,(RLA) of the club included custom-designed "Levan Horn Bass Speakers".
Filling the void left by leading remixer Walter Gibbons, Levan became a prolific producer and mixer in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with many of his efforts crossing over onto the national dance music charts. Among the records that received Levan's touch were his remixes of "Ain't Nothin' Goin On But The Rent" by Gwen Guthrie and "Heartbeat" by Taana Gardner,[3] as well as his production work on "Don't Make Me Wait" by the Peech Boys,[3] a group that Levan formed and was part of (and who became the New York Citi Peech Boys when the Beach Boys threatened a lawsuit due to the similar sound of the name). With a strong gospel tinge in the vocal arrangements and driven by a tinkling piano, the latter song is a quintessential example of the deejay's soulful aesthetic. One of the first dance releases to incorporate a dub influence and an appended vocal-only edit, Levan tinkered with the song for nearly a year to the consternation of Mel Cheren, whose label, West End Records, was nearing bankruptcy. When it was finally released, much of the song's momentum had been lost and it stalled in the lower reaches of the charts.
As the popularity of the Garage soared in the mid-1980s just as many of his longtime friends lost their battles with AIDS, Levan became increasingly dependent upon PCP and heroin. While performing, he began to ensconce himself within a protective entourage of drag queens and younger acolytes. As beat-matching and stylistic adherence became the norm among club DJs, Levan's idiosyncratic sets (ranging the gamut from Evelyn "Champagne" King and Chaka Khan to Kraftwerk, Manuel Göttsching,[3] & British synth-pop) elicited criticism from some quarters. Nevertheless, he remained at the vanguard of dance music; recordings of Levan's later sets at the Garage demonstrate his affinity for the insurgent sounds of Chicago house and hip-hop.
The Garage ended its run with a 48 hour-long party in September 1987,[3] weeks before Brody died from AIDS-related complications. The closure devastated Levan, who knew that few club owners would tolerate his quirks and drug dependencies. Although Brody had verbally bequeathed the club's sound and lighting systems to Levan, they were instead left to Brody's mother in his will. This change was reportedly instigated by the late impresario's lover and manager, who reportedly despised Levan.
Despite protestations and pleas to the Brody family from Mel Cheren, the systems remained in storage as their property. Unable to secure a long-term residency after a stay at the short-lived Choice in the East Village alongside DJ/proprietor Richard Vasquez and Joey Llanos, Levan began to sell his valuable records for drug money. Friends like Danny Krivit would buy them back for him out of sympathy.
As the nineties dawned, Levan was on the brink of a comeback. Although dismissed as a relic in New York, his popularity had soared among connoisseurs of disco and early American electronic dance music in Europe and Japan. In 1991, he was brought over for the weekend to London by Justin Berkmann to DJ at London's Ministry of Sound nightclub[3] where he ended up staying for 3 months remixing, producing and helping to tune the club's sound system. Although he was still dependent on heroin, Levan's 1992 tour of Japan garnered gushing accolades in the local press. Encouraged by Cheren, he entered rehab and made a tentative return to the studio. On the contrary, he informed his mother in June 1992 that he had "lived a good life" and was "ready to die"; Francois Kevorkian described Levan's final Japanese sets as nostalgic and inspirational, imbued with an air of bittersweetness and closure.
Shortly after returning home from Japan, Levan voluntarily entered the hospital. He died four days later on November 8 of heart failure caused by endocarditis.[6] In September 2004, Levan was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his outstanding achievement as a DJ.
The 2006 album The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, by electronic music duo Matmos, contains a tribute to Levan titled "Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan".


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India said it was watching the situation in Maldives closely but had no plans as yet to curtail any aid. "As for the standby credit promised by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, there is no timeline for disbursing it," official sources said.
The Indian government fears Maldives could be hit to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for cancelling the GMR-led consortium's contract.
On Friday Minister for External Affairs Salman Khurshid asked Male to keep in check elements who may be trying to harm bilateral relations. Mr. Khurshid also drew a distinction between India's interests in the region which are much more wide-ranging and the GMR contract cancellation saga.
"If they have to take a decision in interest of their society and country and if that decision is taken properly as per laws there, what objections can anyone have? We would want that whatever is the decision, it should not put any question marks on our friendly relations," Mr. Khurshid told newspersons outside Parliament. "If any quarters there want our relations should be harmed, then they should be controlled. I think Maldives and its people know this thing properly and I am sure that they will do it," added the Minister.
Asked about India's plans to "intervene," he said, "for commercial enterprises no one intervenes, but we have been assured about the security and safety of our citizens and interests there. To that extent, it is our right and we have also told them about this right. On the commercial discussions, we don't have the right and there is no justification for it. Try to understand the issue in the right context and I think there is nothing to worry about.''
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i threw the stars out into the cosmos & used my fish hooks to hang the moon too; hide the sun from wanting eyes beneath the zaffre mountains (look how they sleep) painting the night (wisteria) with such grace.
for who could know the wonder growing a pair of antlers can bring for a small child. time to decorate [find what you can]: shattered compasses, gears [never do they turn], maybe glitter. look how pretty she is with her elegant horns- all isabelline white & with its specks of fallow & teeth splashed with honeydew [no makeup] & a compass too many to show her the many ways to make mistakes.
has anyone ever wondered how a butterfly sleeps? does it keep flapping its wings in the night until its lull brings it to dreams? only to create a cosmic latte, for all the world to see. does it hide among the twist & turns of the yellowing tule trees, waiting for the sun to rise? only to close its eyes again, slowly. waking in the dead of night to create cosmic cream of vanilla stars & snow shakes never open its eyes to winter's breeze.


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Spectating Sauron playing as Pantheon in dominion. I saw a featured normal game, and it didn't follow the 5v5 meta and I was like waaat. Then I saw Sauron's name, Googled it (I recognised it) and realised the "normal" game was dominion. Watched him stomp the other team :P
Its only page 7 on Google, doing better than I could ever have hoped. I think now that I hit 2800 and my queue times are retardedly long once again (Matchmaking seems to work in ranges of 100), I'll work on a new version of this guide that will be several posts long.
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It's a Caitlin Moran bonanza! (Moranza?) Starting tomorrow in The Times Magazine, don't miss a week of extracts from her new book, Moranthology, and a Caitlin Twitter competition
Last year our columnist, Caitlin Moran, published the bestselling How to Be a Woman, which has sold more than 400,000 copies in 16 countries. Next week, she releases Moranthology, a compilation of her writing for The Times over the past 20 years. The book, as she explains in The Times Magazine tomorrow (live online from 9pm tonight, subscription required) alongside the first of six exclusive extracts, charts how her views have changed since she started on the paper at the age of 18.
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'Dude," you might say, "why are you in The Times Magazine dressed up as Batman? I mean, why? Why would you do that? Obviously, I can see doing it would have seemed like a good alternative to anything else you may have been chalked in to do that day – such as sort out the moths in the loft, or take that privet hedge back two feet. But holy slightly inadvisable PVC catsuit, Batlady – WTF?"
And the short answer is, "Promo, my friend. My new book, Moranthology – a compilation of my columns for The Times over the past 20 years – is out next week, and this is just the kind of thing that happens. To be honest, I could just as easily have been shot dressed up as Darth Vader running a teashop, or photoshopped so I looked like the entire cast of Downton Abbey – even Bates, with his funny leg. An eye-catching novelty photoshoot is all par for the promo course."
But, in fact, there is a reason for the Batmanisation. The photoshoot was all my idea. I did my hair and make-up myself – as you can probably tell. I eschewed all glamorising and professional help. I wanted to look like a slightly cheap, scruffy, spotty, thigh-ish but determined Batman – because, at 37, that's how I feel.
For, as I put Moranthology together, I realised what the book, inadvertently, was: the chronicle of how I've done all my growing up, and learning, while writing my columns in The Times.
Don't miss The Times tomorrow for the start of a week long celebration of Times star columnist, Caitlin Moran.
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Will Rumors Of Electronic Arts (EA) Deal With Comcast (CMCSA) Help Its Stock Today?
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Electronic Arts
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According to the report, the two company's are close to reaching a deal that will allow Comcast customers to buy Electronic Arts games through their televisions and stream them without having to buy physical copies of the game.
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The process would be available through Comcast's cloud integrated X1 cable box, according to Reuters sources.
"Comcast would make the games available on X1, a video operating system with apps and an interface that is considered the most sophisticated in the cable industry, the sources said. It features Internet applications, viewing recommendations and voice control," said Reuters.
TheStreet Ratings team rates ELECTRONIC ARTS INC as a Hold with a ratings score of C. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate ELECTRONIC ARTS INC (EA) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, good cash flow from operations and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income and disappointing return on equity."
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- Compared to its closing price of one year ago, EA's share price has jumped by 66.12%, exceeding the performance of the broader market during that same time frame. Although EA had significant growth over the past year, our hold rating indicates that we do not recommend additional investment in this stock at the current time.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 88.70% to $685.00 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, ELECTRONIC ARTS INC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 8.73%.
- ELECTRONIC ARTS INC has experienced a steep decline in earnings per share in the most recent quarter in comparison to its performance from the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, ELECTRONIC ARTS INC increased its bottom line by earning $0.32 versus $0.21 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($1.31 versus $0.32).
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Special Teams, Not Catches, Crucial to Picking No. 5 WR
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Published July 30, 2012 at 12:33 PMYou'll read it nearly every day if you're on Twitter: "Kevin Cone just made a great catch," or "James Rodgers is really quick off the ball and runs nice routes."
It may lead some to believe that those abilities have created front-runners for the race at the No. 5 wide receiver position, but the truth is, the person who earns that position will be much more adept at special teams than running routes and catching passes.
"In our scheme and who we have at tight end, we won't be in too many four wide sets," head coach Mike Smith said during the weekend. "The fifth receiver would be put in the ball game because of injuries. The majority of his snaps will be played on special teams. It will be heavily weighted towards his production on special teams."
Knowing this, Cone, Rodgers and other contenders — Drew Davis, Tim Toone, Kenny Stafford, Marcus Jackson and Michael Calvin — are focused on really shining during the usual 20-minute period before the start of practice devoted to special teams.
That's why Cone goes all out during punt block drills, why Rodgers takes every punt return like it's the real thing, why Toone — just added days ago and likely behind the rest of his teammates at the position — likely feels fortunate to be in the mix at the punt return spot.
"I think special teams is very important because every guy that comes into the National Football League, they have to play special teams," Rodgers said. "I'm just doing whatever they need me to do, and if that's going down there and covering kicks, blocking kicks, returning balls, then that's what I have to do to make the team."
If there is a front-runner at this stage of the game, however, Cone could probably be considered it, simply based on his past. Cone was signed as an undrafted free agent after 2011 Russell Athletic Atlanta Falcons Training Camp started and earned a spot on the practice squad before eventually being signed to the active roster late in the season and participating on special teams — particularly the kickoff coverage team.
With that experience, it could translate to a better understanding of his responsibilities and what he needs to do to earn that No. 5 position outright.
"I think it carries over a lot. I learned a lot about myself and learned what I need to do to put myself at the next level as far as depth chart and my abilities on the field on special teams," Cone said. "I think I learned a lot and it's going to correlate a lot to the field this year."
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South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney's goal is to be sitting in New York next December as one of the finalists for the Heisman Trophy.
''I believe a defensive player can win the Heisman next year,'' Clowney said.
Actually, he believes he can win it.
''That's my next thing, New York,'' Clowney said Monday night after the Gamecock's practice. ''Next season, I am going to come out and try to work harder than I did this season and try to get there.''
The consensus All-American was the Hendricks Award winner this year as the best defensive end in college. He finished sixth in the Heisman voting; Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel won it. Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o was second and Clowney hopes he can become the first defensive player since Michigan's Charles Woodson in 1997 to win college football's most prestigious individual honor.
Clowney and the 11th-ranked Gamecocks (10-2) are preparing for No. 19 Michigan (8-4) in the Outback Bowl on New Year's Day.
Clowney, the Southeastern Conference's sacks leader with 13, took large strides forward this season and Gamecocks defensive line coach Brad Lawing expects that to continue. Clowney is a homebody, Lawing said, who'd rather be with family and friends in his hometown of Rock Hill than jetting around the country and smiling for cameras.
Clowney told Lawing at the College Football Awards show in Orlando, Fla., he was simply happy to be nominated and wasn't concerned about trophies.
''It will to you next year, I promise you,'' Lawing responded.
Clowney, 6-foot-6 and 256 pounds, was the country's top college prospect coming out of South Pointe High. Lawing remembers recruiting Clowney's high school teammates DeVonte Holloman and Stephon Gilmore - a first-round draft pick of the Buffalo Bills last spring - when prep coach Bobby Carroll said there was a 15-year-old Lawing had to watch.
Lawing rolled through hours of tape at the high school and was amazed at Clowney's skill. ''Tell him he's got a scholarship'' to South Carolina, Lawing told Carroll.
Clowney was wooed by the country's powerhouse programs and selected South Carolina over finalists Alabama and Clemson on Valentine's Day 2011.
Clowney, though, was not an instant success. His technique was ragged and desire to work hard was inconsistent. He and Lawing butted heads plenty during Clowney's freshman season.
''Sometimes when you're 18, 19 years old, you think you know everything,'' Lawing said.
Clowney's commitment to get better increased this past offseason. He spent more time watching film, refining technique and studying the game. The results were evident.
He consistently beat double teams, often leaping opposing players to cause havoc in the backfield. Clowney's best game this year came in the regular-season finale, a virtuoso showing of 4 1/2 sacks of Clemson star Tajh Boyd in the 27-17 victory over the rival Tigers.
The performance resonated with people outside of South Carolina, too.
''Everywhere we went people were talking about that game,'' Clowney said.
Clowney's got a combination of size, speed and maturity that would make him the No. 1 draft pick in April if he were eligible, ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. said last week. ''I don't think there would be any doubt about that,'' Kiper said.
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier has long said Clowney would and should leave after his junior season as a likely first-round selection.
''He's gotten a lot of attention and he's handled it well, handled it very well,'' Spurrier said. ''We all know he's a three-year player, which is fine.''
Clowney's got goals to achieve, Lawing says. He's just eight sacks away from catching Eric Norwood for the school's all-time leading sacks mark of 29. Plus, Clowney would love bettering the single-season school marks of 13 sacks and 21 1/2 tackles for loss he's put up so far this year.
Spurrier, the 1966 Heisman winner, voted Clowney first on his ballot ahead of Manziel and Te'o. But Spurrier knows it would take a mega-season for Clowney to overcome the game's offensive stars who may vie for next year's Heisman.
Clowney smiles when asked if he's capable of pulling off that feat.
''It's a possibility,'' he said. ''I just keep playing my game, and I probably have a shot at winning next year.''
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- Chocolate - AIC does good work, the premise sounds like fun, and I usually like school girls getting into shenanigans shows.
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- Tari Tari - It's by P.A. Works. 'Nuff said.
- Chouyaku - I just got through marathoning Chihayafuru and loved it so anything involving karuta is getting a pass. Plus the art looks nice.
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- Natsuyuki - Could be a touching romance or could be really cheesy and hokey. I'll give it a shot to see where it falls.
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Believe in Yourself. Nobody Else Will.This last 6 months saw the turn around of all the people in my life (as in everyone) asking me to quit art and focus on something else. I no longer receive constant suggestions of other careers that I should pursue. I'm sure many of you have had awkward conversations with strangers or elderly people about your desire to become an artist. I had one today (she told me art was not a feasible career). Only now my belief in myself is at 100% so that person walked away believing in me as well.More Like This
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Oh yeah I forgot to add, any song that the cast of Glee sang, because they ruin everything they touch.
"Like a G6" is another stinker.
Also "Club Can't Handle Me" by Flo Rida.
Definitely up there for 'worst lyrics' award.
I agree with the one that said "Hey Soul Sister". That is pretty terrible too. But Train's new shit isn't all bad. "Save Me San Francisco" I like a lot.
It pains me to nominate this as I really love this band, but "Catalyst" by Linkin Park. What the hell has become of these guys?
They used to write great rock songs, songs with good choruses. Their new stuff, Flo Rida could rap over the top and you'd never know it was once Linkin Park.
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In sociology, social stratification is a concept involving the "classification of persons into groups based on shared socio-economic conditions ... a relational set of inequalities with economic, social, political and ideological dimensions." When differences lead to greater status,power or privilege for some groups over the other it is called Social Stratification.[1] It is a system by which society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy [2] Social stratification is based on four basic principles: (1) Social stratification is a trait of society, not simply a reflection of individual differences; (2) Social stratification carries over from generation to generation; (3) Social stratification is universal but variable; (4) Social stratification involves not just inequality but beliefs as well.[3]
In modern Western societies, stratification is broadly organized into three main layers: upper class, middle class, and lower class. Each of these classes can be further subdivided into smaller classes (e.g. occupational).[4]
These categories are particular to state-based societies as distinguished from feudal societies composed of nobility-to-peasant relations. Stratification may also be defined by kinship ties or castes. For Max Weber, social class pertaining broadly to material wealth is distinguished from status class which is based on such variables as honor, prestige and religious affiliation. Talcott Parsons argued that the forces of societal differentiation and the following pattern of institutionalized individualization would strongly diminish the role of class (as a major stratification factor) as social evolution went along. It is debatable whether the earliest hunter-gatherer groups may be defined as 'stratified', or if such differentials began with agriculture and broad acts of exchange between groups. One of the ongoing issues in determining social stratification arises from the point that status inequalities between individuals are common, so it becomes a quantitative issue to determine how much inequality qualifies as stratification.[5]
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The concept of social stratification is interpreted differently by the various theoretical perspectives of sociology. Proponents of action theory have suggested that since social stratification is commonly found in developed societies, hierarchy may be necessary in order to stabilize social structure. Talcott Parsons, an American sociologist, asserted that stability and social order are regulated, in part, by universal value although universal values were not identical with "consensus" but could as well be the impetus for ardent conflict as it had been multiple times through history. Parsons never claimed that universal values in and by themselves "satisfied" the functional prerequisites of a society, indeed, the constitution of society was a much more complicated codification of emerging historical factors. The so-called conflict theories, such as Marxism, point to the inaccessibility of resources and lack of social mobility found in stratified societies. Many sociological theorists have criticized the extent to which the working classes are unlikely to advance socioeconomically; the wealthy tend to hold political power which they use to exploit the proletariat intergenerationally. Theorists such as Ralf Dahrendorf, however, have noted the tendency toward an enlarged middle-class in modern Western societies due to the necessity of an educated workforce in technological and service economies. Various social and political perspectives concerning globalization, such as dependency theory, suggest that these effects are due to the change of workers to the third world.
In Marxist theory, the capitalist mode of production consists of two main economic parts: the substructure and the Superstructure. Marx saw classes as defined by people's relationship to the means of productions in two basic ways: either they own productive property or labour for others.[6] The base comprehends the relations of production—employer–employee work conditions, the technical division of labour, and property relations—into which people enter to produce the necessities and amenities of life. In the capitalist system, the ruling classes own the means of production, which essentially includes the working class itself as they only have their own labor power ('wage labor') to offer in order to survive. These relations fundamentally determine the ideas and philosophies of a society, constituting the superstructure. A temporary status quo is achieved by various methods of social control employed, consciously or unconsciously, by the bourgeoisie in the course of various aspects of social life. Through the ideology of the ruling class, false consciousness is promoted both through ostensibly political and non-political institutions, but also through the arts and other elements of culture. Marx believed the capitalist mode would eventually give way, through its own internal conflict, to revolutionary consciousness and the development of egalitarian communist society.
According to Marvin Harris[7] and Tim Ingold,[8] Lewis Henry Morgan's accounts of egalitarian hunter-gatherers formed part of Karl Marx and Engels's inspiration for communism. Morgan spoke of a situation in which people living in the same community pooled their efforts and shared the rewards of those efforts fairly equally. He called this "communism in living." But when Marx expanded on these ideas, he still emphasized an economically oriented culture, with property defining the fundamental relationships between people.[9] Yet, issues of ownership and property are arguably less emphasized in hunter-gatherer societies.[10] This, combined with the very different social and economic situations of hunter-gatherers may account for many of the difficulties encountered when implementing communism in industrialized states. As Ingold points out: "The notion of communism, removed from the context of domesticity and harnessed to support a project of social engineering for large-scale, industrialized states with populations of millions, eventually came to mean something quite different from what Morgan had intended: namely, a principle of redistribution that would override all ties of a personal or familial nature, and cancel out their effects."[8]
Max Weber was strongly influenced by Marx's ideas, but rejected the possibility of effective communism, arguing that it would require an even greater level of detrimental social control and bureaucratization than capitalist society. Moreover, Weber criticized the dialectical presumption of proletariat revolt, believing it to be unlikely.[11] Instead, he developed the three-component theory of stratification and the concept of life chances. Weber supposed there were more class divisions than Marx suggested, taking different concepts from both functionalist and Marxist theories to create his own system. He emphasized the difference between class, status, and power, and treated these as separate but related sources of power, each with different effects on social action. Working at half a century later than Marx, Weber claimed there to be in fact four main classes: the upper class, the white collar workers, the petite bourgeoisie, and the manual working class. Weber's theory more-closely resembles modern Western class structures, although economic status does not seem to depend strictly on earnings in the way Weber envisioned.
Weber derived many of his key concepts on social stratification by examining the social structure of Germany. He noted that contrary to Marx's theories, stratification was based on more than simply ownership of capital. Weber examined how many members of the aristocracy lacked economic wealth yet had strong political power. Many wealthy families lacked prestige and power, for example, because they were Jewish. Weber introduced three independent factors that form his theory of stratification hierarchy, which are; class, status, and power:
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Anthropologists have found that social stratification is not the standard among all societies. John Gowdy writes, "Assumptions about human behaviour that members of market societies believe to be universal, that humans are naturally competitive and acquisitive, and that social stratification is natural, do not apply to many hunter-gatherer peoples."[14] Non-stratified egalitarian or acephalous ("headless") societies exist which have little or no concept of social hierarchy, political or economic status, class, or even permanent leadership.
Anthropologists identify egalitarian cultures as "kinship-oriented," because they appear to value social harmony more than wealth or status. These cultures are contrasted with economically oriented cultures (including states) in which status and material wealth are prized, and stratification, competition, and conflict are common. Kinship-oriented cultures actively work to prevent social hierarchies from developing because they believe that such stratification could lead to conflict and instability.[citation needed] Reciprocal altruism is one process by which this is accomplished.
A good example is given by Richard Borshay Lee in his account of the Khoisan, who practices "insulting the meat." Whenever a hunter makes a kill, he is ceaselessly teased and ridiculed (in a friendly, joking fashion) to prevent him from becoming too proud or egotistical. The meat itself is then distributed evenly among the entire social group, rather than kept by the hunter. The level of teasing is proportional to the size of the kill. Lee found this out when he purchased an entire cow as a gift for the group he was living with, and was teased for weeks afterward about it (since obtaining that much meat could be interpreted as showing off).[15]
Another example is the Indigenous Australians of Groote Eylandt and Bickerton Island, off the coast of Arnhem Land, who have arranged their entire society, spirituality, and economy around a kind of gift economy called renunciation. According to David H. Turner, in this arrangement, every person is expected to give everything of any resource they have to any other person who needs or lacks it at the time. This has the benefit of largely eliminating social problems like theft and relative poverty. However, misunderstandings obviously arise when attempting to reconcile Aboriginal renunciative economics with the competition/scarcity-oriented economics introduced to Australia by Anglo-European colonists.[16] See also the Original affluent society.
Research suggests that social stratification can cause many social problems. A comprehensive study of major world economies revealed that homicide, infant mortality, obesity, teenage pregnancies, emotional depression, teen suicide, and prison population all correlate with higher social inequality.[17]
1. The rankings apply to social categories of people who share a common characteristic without necessarily interacting or identifying with each other. The process of being ranked can be changed by the person being ranked.[18]
2. People's life experiences and opportunities depend on their social category. This characteristic can be changed by the amount of work a person can put into their interests.[18]
3. The ranks of different social categories change slowly over time. This has occurred frequently in the United States ever since the American revolution. The U.S. constitution has been altered several times to specify rights for everyone.[18]
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