Chapter 11 Flashcards
Alienation
The deep separation that individuals experiecne between their innermost sense of identity and the labour they are forced to perform in order to survive
Anomie
Pervasive sense of rootlessness and normlessness in a society
Biopower
Held by modern government over the bodies of its individual citizens and over the “body” of all citizens
Consensus
An agreement to which all parties collectively give their assent
Domination
Coercive rule
Essentially Negotiable Concepts
Culturally recognized concepts that evoke a wide range of meanings and whose relevance in any particular context must be negotiated
Free Agency
The freedom of self-contained individuals to pursure their own interests above everything else and to challenge one another for dominance
Governmentality
The art of governing appropriate to promoting the welfare of populations within a state
Hegemony
System of leadership where rulers persuade subordinates to accept the ideology of a dominant group by offering mutual accomodations that nevertheless preserve the rulers’ priviledged position
Persuasion
Power based on verbal argument
Political Anthropology
Study of social power in human society
Political Power
Social power held by a group that is in a position to affect the lives of many people
Power
Transformative capacity; ability to transform a given situation
Resistance
The power to refuse being forced against one’s will to conform to someone else’s wishes
Social Organization
Patterning of human interdependence in a given society through the actions and decisions of its members
