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Jiang says social structures are rigid because people usually play the game of fitting into their environment.
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Social Structure
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Jiang says elderly pensioners control Chinese society culturally and politically because respect for elders is built into Chinese social structure from childhood.
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The next class will cover the gunpowder revolution, which Jiang says will mark a radical change in how society is structured.
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"And that's why social structures are extremely rigid. Because the game they're playing is often just to fit into their environment. Okay? Does that..."
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"last class and i'll answer it first all right from last class you mentioned that um the ones that control society are those old..."
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"but it's the pensioners, the old people, who control society, control the culture, who control government, right? Because in China, from the first day,..."
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"It doesn't matter how many people, it doesn't matter how many people you have, it doesn't matter how much weapons you have, as long..."
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"...most important, of course, is the Roman culture. So the Roman social structure is called the paterfamilias. Okay? And how the system works is..."
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"...the Romans killed him because Jesus was a threat to their social structure. But the Bible says that, nope, it was the Jews who..."
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"...what happens what's really interesting is throughout the year that different social structures so during the winter everyone comes together and they form a..."
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"...common in the ancient past is for people to adopt different social structures and they can choose what social structure to go to okay..."
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"...all right? And again, China will adopt all these policies and social structures for itself, okay? Let's go over some wars. So what's really..."
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"...church and what became dominant is it mirror it mirrored the social structure of the Roman Empire all right so the Roman Empire the..."
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"...his policy is this. Listen um we need to change our social structure in order to win against Athens. So I so what he..."
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"...No they're really unhappy about this. Okay? Because it's changing their social structure. You understand? They don't want this crap. They want the helots..."
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