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27 Cards in this Set
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Power |
ability to exercise one’s will over others; authority is formal, socially approved use of power |
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Service |
four types, or levels, of political organization |
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Band |
small kin-based group among foragers |
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Tribe |
economy based on nonintensive food production |
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Chiefdom |
intermediate form between tribe and state |
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State |
formal governmental structure and socioeconomic stratification |
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Differential access |
favored access to resources by superordinates over subordinates |
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Kent |
tendency exists to stereotype foragers; stresses variation among foragers |
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conflict resolution |
means of settling disputes |
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law |
the legal code ofa state society, with trial and enforcementprovisions |
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Tribes |
typically have horticultural or pastoral economy and organized by village life and/or descent-group membership |
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village head |
(local tribal leader with limited authority) is achieved; it comes with very limited authority |
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Big man |
like a village head, except his authority is regional and may have influence over more than one village |
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Pantribal sodalities |
groups that extend across whole tribe, spanning several villages |
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Plains |
leadership needed to raid enemy camps and manage summer bison hunt |
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Office |
permanent position that must be refilled when it is vacated by death or retirement |
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Economic status or wealth |
all a person’s material assets; the basis of his or her economic status |
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Power |
the ability to control others; the basis of political status |
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Prestige |
esteem, respect, or approval; the basis of social status |
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Superordinate |
upper, elite group in stratified society; privileged access to wealth, power, and valued resources |
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Subordinate |
lower, underprivileged group in stratified society; limited by privileged group |
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Fiscal system |
pertains to finances and taxation |
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Social control |
“those fields of the social system (beliefs, practices, and institutions) that are most actively involved in the maintenance of any norms and regulation of any conflict” |
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Hegemony |
subordinates comply by internalizing rulers’ values and accepting the “naturalness” of domination |
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Cadeia (jail) |
the last phase of an extended political and legal process |
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Enretthe (sorcery attack) |
was believed such a punitive sorcery attack would kill the thief or make him extremely ill |
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Ehaya (shame) |
thief would experience extended feeling of disgrace |
