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Research work on the existence of hierarchies in school  

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Research work on the existence of hierarchies in school I will deal with topics such as power, politics and admiration. I will use cultural relativism in this case, although, being it my own society; I may become tempted to include some of my own bias in the analysis. Above all, the comparative anthropological study of politics and therefore of power is concerned with showing how political systems function and how people act or are prevented from acting within them. Nevertheless, we have to think that the actors rarely see the full context and consequences of their acts, and that the anthropologist's analytical task consists in working this out. I will also base my analysis on notions such as "false consciousness"; that is to say, the idea that some members of a group may think they have certain power, when the truth is that they are controlled by other members...

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