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Social Organization
The patterning of human independence in a given society through the actions and decisions of its members
Power
Transformative capacity; the ability to transform a given situation
Political Anthropology
The study if social power in human society
Free Agency
The freedom of self-contained individuals to pursue their own interests above everything else and to challenge one another for dominance
Domination
Coercive rule
Hegemony
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
Governmentiality
The art of governing appropriate to promoting the welfare of populations within a state
Resistance
The power to refuse being forced against ones's will to conform to someone else's wishes
Consensus
An agreement to which all parties collectively give their assent
Persuassion
Power based on verbal arguement
Anomie
A pervasive sense of rootlessness and normlessness in a society
Alienation
The deep separation that individuals experience between their innermost sense of identity and the labour they are forced to perform in order to survive
Essentially Negotiable Concepts
Culturally recognized concepts that evoke a wide range of meanings and whose relevance in any particular context must be negotiated
'Scars of Bondage' Thesis
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