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16 Cards in this Set
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Power
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The ability of individuals or groups to impose their will upon others and make them do things even against their own wants or wishes.
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Political Organization
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The way power is accumulated, arranged, executed, and structurally distributed and embedded in society; the means through which a society creates and maintains social order.
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Band
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A relatively small and loosely organized kin-ordered group that inhabits a common territory and that may split periodically into smaller extended family groups that are politically and economically independent.
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Tribe
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Refers to a range of kin-ordered groups that are politically integrated by some unifying factor and whose members share a common ancestry, identity, culture, language, and territory.
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Chiefdom
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A regional polity in which two or more local groups are organized under a single chief, who is at the head of a ranked hierarchy of people.
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State
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A political institution established to manage and defend a complex, socially stratified society occupying a defined territory.
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Nation
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A people who share a collective identity based on a common culture, language, territorial base, and history.
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Legitimacy
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The right of political leaders to govern – to hold, use and allocate power, on the socially accepted customs, rules, or laws that bind and hold a people together as a collective whole.
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Cultural Control
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Control though beliefs and values deeply internalized in the minds of individuals.
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Social Control
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External control though open coercion.
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Sanction
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An externalized social control designed to encourage conformity to social norms.
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Law
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Formal rules of conduct that, when violated, effectuate negative sanctions.
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Negotiation
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The use of direct argument and compromise by the parties to a dispute to arrive voluntarily at a mutually satisfactory agreement.
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Mediation
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Settlement of a dispute through negotiation assisted by an unbiased third party.
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Adjudication
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Mediation with an unbiased third party making the ultimate decision.
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Genocide
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The physical extermination of one people by another, either as a deliberate act or as the accidental outcome of activities carried out by one people with little regard for their impact on others.
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