Ch. 8 - Political Systems

Question 1

Ability to exercise one’s will over others

Answer 1

Power

Question 2

Food-producing society with rudimentary political structure

Answer 2

Tribe

Question 3

Favored access to resources by superordinates over subordinates

Answer 3

Differential access

Question 4

Legal code of a state society, with trial and enforcement

Answer 4

Law

Question 5

Means of settling disputes

Answer 5

Conflict resolution

Question 6

Local tribe leader with limited authority

Answer 6

Village head

Question 7

Generous tribal entrepreneur with multivillage support

Answer 7

Big man

Question 8

Non-kin-based groups with regional political significance

Answer 8

Pantribal sodalities

Question 9

Permanent political position

Answer 9

Office

Question 10

All a person’s material assets; basis of economic status

Answer 10

Wealth

Question 11

Esteem, respect, or approval

Answer 11

Prestige

Question 12

Upper, privileged group in a stratified society

Answer 12

Superordinate

Question 13

Lower, underprivileged group in a stratified society

Answer 13

Subordinate

Question 14

Pertaining to finances and taxation

Answer 14

Fiscal

Question 15

Maintaining social norms and regulating conflict

Answer 15

Social control

Question 16

Stratified social order in which subordinates accept hierarchy as “natural”

Answer 16

Hegemony