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Transcript of The Causes of Hunger-Part 3
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The Causes of HungerA 3-part Journey
1. Seeing the Unseen
2. Hunger‘s Depths: The Symptoms
3. Hunger’s Depths: The Social & Mental Structures
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Intangible Causes:
Mental Structure
Less-tangible Causes:
Social Structure
Tangible Causes:Symptoms
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The Social Structure
Facilitator
Training Video
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In almost all societies, the people living with hunger
are indigenous people,
women, & girls…
Why?
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Because they Lack
“Symbolic Capital”
• Social structures confer “symbolic capital.”
• “Symbolic capital” refers to status, rights and
privileges given strictly on the basis of gender,ethnicity, age, etc.
• In almost all societies, males are given greater
symbolic capital than females.
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Symbolic capital translates
into social positions
These positions include whether we aredominant or subordinate,
oppressor or oppressed
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Social Positions Dictate
Roles and Behaviors
• Women’s roles are typically in the home• Cooking
• Having and raising children
• Fetching water and wood
• Men’s roles are typically outside the home• Working in the community
• Earning money• Participating in community decision-making
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And finally, all of these
positions and roles arereinforced by society
• Government• Religious institutions
• The market
• Etc.
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People are not born “ wanting to dominate”
or “ wanting to be oppressed!”
We fall into or assume the positions and
roles society has created for us
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Changemaker Dialogue1. What “social capital” have you been given?
2. How has it helped to determine the positions
and roles you’ve taken on?
3. How has it helped you? How might it be holding
you back?
4. How are you spending your social capital?
5. Does this dialogue help you appreciate the
power of our social structures have on our lives?
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The Mental Structure
Facilitator
Training Video
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By mental structure, wemean the thoughts, ideas,
values, beliefs, attitudes
we hold in our mind.
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Our mental
structure
mirrors,
recreates andreproduces
our social
structure
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We see the social structure as
the natural state of things:
Immutable, not created by
human beings
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In the case of hunger and poverty,
the result is often:Resignation
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Changemaker Dialogue
What have you learned about
the causes of hunger?