Chapter 12 Cultural Control, War, and Peace

Question 1

Internal Beliefs

Answer 1

A cultures unwritten laws or beliefs

Question 2

Cultural Controls

Answer 2

beliefs and values which are deeply ingrained in the minds of each member of the culture.

Question 3

Social Controls

Answer 3

Forced governmental control

Question 4

Politics

Answer 4

the process determining who gets what, when, and how.

Question 5

Authority:

Answer 5

or (legitimacy) is the ability to claim and exercise power as justified by law or custom of tradition

Question 6

Political organization:

Answer 6

the way that power is distributed and embedded in society. The means by which a society creates and maintains social order.

Question 7

Coercion:

Answer 7

the imposition of obedience or submission by force or intimidation.

Question 8

Power:

Answer 8

the ability of individuals or groups to impose their will upon others and make them do things even against their own wants or wishes.

Question 9

Sanction

Answer 9

externalized social control designed to encourage conformity to social norms and to maintain order

Question 10

Example of a social control mechanism:

Answer 10

the usage of “witchcraft”

Question 11

Genocide

Answer 11

physical extermination of one people by another

Question 12

Treaty

Answer 12

contract of a formally binding agreement between two or more groups that are independent and self-governing political groups such as tribes, chiefdoms and states