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14 Cards in this Set
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Social Organization
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The patterning of human independence in a given society through the actions and decisions of its members
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Power
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Transformative capacity; the ability to transform a given situation
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Political Anthropology
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The study if social power in human society
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Free Agency
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The freedom of self-contained individuals to pursue their own interests above everything else and to challenge one another for dominance
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Domination
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Coercive rule
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Hegemony
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A system of leadership in which rulers persuade subordinates to accept the ideology of the dominant group by offering mutual accommodations that nevertheless preserve the rulers' privileged position
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Governmentiality
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The art of governing appropriate to promoting the welfare of populations within a state
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Resistance
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The power to refuse being forced against ones's will to conform to someone else's wishes
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Consensus
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An agreement to which all parties collectively give their assent
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Persuassion
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Power based on verbal arguement
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Anomie
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A pervasive sense of rootlessness and normlessness in a society
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Alienation
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The deep separation that individuals experience between their innermost sense of identity and the labour they are forced to perform in order to survive
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Essentially Negotiable Concepts
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Culturally recognized concepts that evoke a wide range of meanings and whose relevance in any particular context must be negotiated
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'Scars of Bondage' Thesis
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In third world countries, the thesis situated around anomie and aleination that predicts that the more complete the political domination and exploitation of a people, the more deeply they will be scared, brutalized, and dehumanized by the experience
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