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47 Cards in this Set
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The ability to take action in the face of resistance, through force if necessary. |
Power |
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The ability to take action based on a person's achieved or ascribed status or moral reputation. |
Authority |
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The ability to achieve a desired and by exerting social or moral pressure on someone or some group. |
Influence |
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Groups within a culture that are responsible for political decision-making and leadership, maintain order, protecting group rights, and ensuring safety from external threats. |
Political organization |
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Least complex, likely oldest, based on closest kinship relations with a fairly small group of people. |
Band |
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Equal, very small differences in wealth among individuals |
Egalitarian |
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Example of band level societies |
Eskimos |
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More complex, larger group, no formal political institutions, but do have solidarity (groups based on kinship, age, gender that provide political organization) |
Tribes |
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The term tribe is used to characterize two types of subsistence systems |
Horticulturalist and pastoralist |
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A form of political organization midway between tribe and chief them and involving reliance on the leadership of key individuals who develop a political following through personal ties and redistribute feast |
Bigman system or big woman system |
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A strategy developing political leadership in Highland New Guinea that involve exchanging gifts and favors with individuals in sponsoring a large feast where further gift-giving occurs |
Moka |
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More complex than tribe, formalize and centralized, authority over many communities the river ride of complex economic, social, and religious institutions. |
Chiefdoms |
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Own, manage, and control the basic productive factors of the economy and have privileged access to strategic and luxury goods. |
Chiefs |
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Pacific island chiefdoms |
Polynesia Hawaii Samoa Haiti |
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Dry forest, woodland Savannah, and grassy Savannah, intensive horticulture, used hose, cereal grains, peas, and beans |
African chiefdoms |
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Mississippi region along the Mississippi River, Moundville in Alabama, fish shellfish dear turkey small mammal, intensive horticulture, you told the fertilizer, mais was important crop |
Native American chiefdoms |
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Pacific coast, doesn't fit willing to teach them category because primarily together, did not practice for dakota or agriculture, unique ecological conditions in northwest provide plenty of resources, game, dear, fish, berries and other plant food, sea mammals |
North west coast |
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Created by inequality within a society |
Hierarchical societies |
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Form of political organization in which a centralized political unit and compasses many communities, bureaucratic structure, and leaders who possess course of powers. |
State |
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cultivation of crops back pain permanent fields year after year after using irrigation and fertilizers |
Intensive agriculture |
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Complex society with a number of characteristics |
Civilization |
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Use sophisticated technology based on machinery powered by advanced fuel to produce material goods |
Industrial society |
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Political communities that have clear defined territorial borders dividing them from one another |
Nations or States |
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The belief that women are equal to men and should have equal rights and opportunities |
Feminism |
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Strong sense of loyalty to the nation state based on shared language, values, and culture. |
Nationalism |
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Historical decline in the influence of religion in society |
Secularization |
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Processes that maintain social life |
Social control |
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Generally agreed upon standard for how people should behave, use the unwritten and learned unconsciously. |
Norm |
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A binding rule created through enactment or custom that defines right and reasonable behavior and is enforced by the threat of punishment |
Law |
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Exercise of social control to processes of surveillance and the threat of punishment related to maintaining social order |
Policing |
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A way of determining innocence of guilt in which the accused person is put to a test that may be painful, stressful, or fatal |
Trial by ordeal |
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On approach within the cross cultural studies of legal systems they examine the role of Law and judicial procedures in maintaining the dominance of powerful groups through discriminatory practices rather than protecting less powerful people |
Critical legal anthropology |
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Icon some to fan is based on social equality that seeks to ensure entitlement and opportunities for disadvantaged members of society |
Social justice |
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Conflict based on perceived differences between divisions or sects with a religion |
sectarian conflict |
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A system of symbols with standards and meanings |
Language |
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Act of transferring information to others |
Communication |
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Feature of human language whereby people are able to communicate a potentially indefinite number of messages efficiently |
Productivity |
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A form of oral communication among nonhuman primates with a set repertoire of meaningful sounds generated in response to environmental factors |
Call system |
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A feature of human language whereby people are able to talk about events in past and future |
Displacement |
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A unit of sound that distinguishes meaning in a particular language |
Phoneme |
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Study of the sounds used in a language |
Phonology |
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Smallest units of language that convey meaning |
Morphemes |
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Collection of rules for the way phrases and sentences are made up out of the words |
Syntax |
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Study of meaning of symbols, words, phrases, and sentences of a language |
Symantics |
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Linguistic differences in pronunciation |
Dialect |
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Considered with body motion and gestures using non verbal communication |
Kinesics |
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Study of how people in different societies perceive and use space |
Proxemics |