Chapter 12 Flashcards
Q: What is social organization?
A: The patterning of human interdependence in a given society through the actions and decisions of its members.
Q: What is power?
A: Transformative capacity; the ability to transform a given situation.
Q: What is social power?
A: The ability to transform a situation that affects an entire social group.
Q: What is political power?
A: Social power held by a group that is in a position to affect the lives of many people.
Q: What is political anthropology?
A: The study of social and political power in a human society.
Q: What is free agency?
A: The freedom to self-contained individuals to pursue their own interests above everything else and to challenge one another for dominance.
Q: What is domination?
A: Coercive rule.
Q: What is hegemony?
A: A system of leadership in which rulers persuade subordinates to accept the ideology of the dominant group by offering mutual accommodations that nevertheless preserve the rulers’ privileged position.
Q: What is governmentality?
A: The art of governing appropriate to promoting the welfare of populations within a state.
Q: What is biopower?
A: Power held by a modern government over the bodies of its individual citizens and over the “body” of all its citizens.
Q: What is resistance?
A: The power to refuse being forced against ones will to conform to someone else’s wishes.
Q: What is consensus?
A: An agreement to which all parties collectively give their assent.
Q: What is persuasion?
A: Power based on a verbal argument.
Q: What is anomie?
A: A pervasive sense of rootlessness and normlessness.
Q: What is alienation?
A: The deep separation that individuals experience between their innermost sense of identity and the labour they are forced to perform in order to survive.
