Lesson 5 Terms Flashcards
What is Political Anthropology?
The study of how societies exercise social control over their members
What is Power?
the ability to induce behavior of others in specified ways using coercion or physical force; an aspect of all relationshipps
What is Authority?
The ability to induce behavior of others by persuasion; culturally determined
What is Legitimacy?
The perception that an individual has a valid right to leadership (can be earned or inherited)
What are the 4 levels of socio-cultural integration?
Band, Tribe, Chiefdom, and State
What are Egalitarian Societies?
Societies with few differences between members in wealth, status, and power ex. bands and tribes
What are Bands?
Smaller populations, foragers, nomadic with fluid and shared leadership
What is the Authority and legitimacy in Bands?
Authority is based on age and gender while legitimacy is based on experience and skill with modesty being valued and sometimes enforced
What are Tribes?
Various groups linked together, 100-5,000 people, small-scale agriculturalists or foragers
What is the Authority and Legitimacy of Tribes?
the authority is based on kinships, age, and gender, and the legitimacy is earned through experience/skill/generosity and can accumulate goods and authority, but not inherited
What are Ranked Societies?
Societies with greater inequality between individuals and their kin groups, the hierarchy of prestige, and typically larger populations with regional interactions/controls/competition
What is a Chiefdom?
A permanent political office of the chief may be hereditary but in some cases, earned. Marked by material differences.
What is the Authority and Legitimacy in Chiefdoms?
The authority is based on hereditary and kinship with skill and ability. The legitimacy is sustained through ability to organize labor, acquire goods, redistribute goods and/or provide protection
What are Stratified Societies?
Largest populations/regions based in larger-scale economic production (agriculture)
What is a Caste System?
A membership is determined by birth, no movement from one to another (such as in class systems); endogamous marriage
