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
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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 and made to think

that way; and "muted groups", or groups who have been excluded from any decision making

process.

In order to achieve my goal I have chosen the method of fieldwork, in my own school,

St. Catherine's Moorlands School, which is located in Pilar, a town in the outskirts of Capital

Federal, Argentina's mayor city. ...

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