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The ability to take action in the face of resistance, through force if necessary.

Power

The ability to take action based on a person's achieved or ascribed status or moral reputation.

Authority

The ability to achieve a desired and by exerting social or moral pressure on someone or some group.

Influence

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

Least complex, likely oldest, based on closest kinship relations with a fairly small group of people.

Band

Equal, very small differences in wealth among individuals

Egalitarian

Example of band level societies

Eskimos

More complex, larger group, no formal political institutions, but do have solidarity (groups based on kinship, age, gender that provide political organization)

Tribes

The term tribe is used to characterize two types of subsistence systems

Horticulturalist and pastoralist

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

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

More complex than tribe, formalize and centralized, authority over many communities the river ride of complex economic, social, and religious institutions.

Chiefdoms

Own, manage, and control the basic productive factors of the economy and have privileged access to strategic and luxury goods.

Chiefs

Pacific island chiefdoms

Polynesia Hawaii Samoa Haiti

Dry forest, woodland Savannah, and grassy Savannah, intensive horticulture, used hose, cereal grains, peas, and beans

African chiefdoms

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

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

Created by inequality within a society

Hierarchical societies

Form of political organization in which a centralized political unit and compasses many communities, bureaucratic structure, and leaders who possess course of powers.

State

cultivation of crops back pain permanent fields year after year after using irrigation and fertilizers

Intensive agriculture

Complex society with a number of characteristics

Civilization

Use sophisticated technology based on machinery powered by advanced fuel to produce material goods

Industrial society

Political communities that have clear defined territorial borders dividing them from one another

Nations or States

The belief that women are equal to men and should have equal rights and opportunities

Feminism

Strong sense of loyalty to the nation state based on shared language, values, and culture.

Nationalism

Historical decline in the influence of religion in society

Secularization

Processes that maintain social life

Social control

Generally agreed upon standard for how people should behave, use the unwritten and learned unconsciously.

Norm

A binding rule created through enactment or custom that defines right and reasonable behavior and is enforced by the threat of punishment

Law

Exercise of social control to processes of surveillance and the threat of punishment related to maintaining social order

Policing

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

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

Icon some to fan is based on social equality that seeks to ensure entitlement and opportunities for disadvantaged members of society

Social justice

Conflict based on perceived differences between divisions or sects with a religion

sectarian conflict

A system of symbols with standards and meanings

Language

Act of transferring information to others

Communication

Feature of human language whereby people are able to communicate a potentially indefinite number of messages efficiently

Productivity

A form of oral communication among nonhuman primates with a set repertoire of meaningful sounds generated in response to environmental factors

Call system

A feature of human language whereby people are able to talk about events in past and future

Displacement

A unit of sound that distinguishes meaning in a particular language

Phoneme

Study of the sounds used in a language

Phonology

Smallest units of language that convey meaning

Morphemes

Collection of rules for the way phrases and sentences are made up out of the words

Syntax

Study of meaning of symbols, words, phrases, and sentences of a language

Symantics

Linguistic differences in pronunciation

Dialect

Considered with body motion and gestures using non verbal communication

Kinesics

Study of how people in different societies perceive and use space

Proxemics