Ch 12 / Politics, Power, & Violence

Question 1

Power

Answer 1

Ability of people to impose their will upon others and make them do things even against their own will

Question 2

Political Organization

Answer 2

The way power is accumulated, arranged, executed, and structurally embedded in society; how a society creates and maintains social order and reduces social disorder

Question 3

Band

Answer 3

Small, kin-ordered group

Question 4

Tribe

Answer 4

Multiple bands, kin-ordered with common ancestry

Question 5

Chiefdom

Answer 5

Several communities united under a single ruler

Question 6

State

Answer 6

Political institutions established to manage and defend a complex, stratified society

Question 7

Nation

Answer 7

People who share collective identity based on common culture, language, territorial base, and history

Question 8

Cultural Control

Answer 8

Control through beliefs and values deeply internalized in the minds of individuals

Question 9

Social Control

Answer 9

External control through open coercion

Question 10

Sanction

Answer 10

Externalized social control designed to encourage conformity to social norms

Question 11

Law

Answer 11

Formal rules of conduct that, when violated, effectuate negative sanction