ABSTRACT
Computerization was at least temporally associated with some rather profound changes in the nature of human social life. The need to view computerization in social reproductionist terms can be illustrated ethnographically. The vignette illustrates the "class" concerns relevant to the ethnology of computerization of at least some "natives." The consequences of computerization are seen as determined less by a technical than by a social relationship, that between the working class and the ruling class. Perhaps the most basic structure/process contrast in ethnology is that between various structural totalities—social formations—-and the processes by which these social formations are transformed from one into another. Social reproductionist ethnology has roots in both neo-Marxist social theory and realist philosophy. Cultural and social anthropologists, those anthropologists who study cultures, share a commitment to ethnography, to grounding what they write or produce visually in actual human experience.
