Lesson 7 - Political and Leadership Structures

Question 1

•Small groups of politically independent, though relates, households.

•Egalitarian, Nomadic and have family ties.

•Least complicated form of political organizations

•Decisions are made with the participation of adult members, with an emphasis where kinship ties give those rights of entry.

Answer 1

Bands

Question 2

•Consists of small, autonomous local communities which form alliances for various purposes

•Egalitarian, settle in villagesa and the oldest decide

•Economy based on crop cultivation on herding.

•Leadership is informal.

Answer 2

Tribes

Question 3

•Chief is head of ranked hierarchy of people.

•Chief is for life and often hereditary.

•Chiefs authority serves to unite his people in all affairs and at all times.

•Highly unstable as lesser chiefs try to take power from higher ranking chiefs.

Answer 3

Chiefdoms

Question 4

The most formal of political organizations. Politicsl power is centralized in a government, which may use force to regulate the affairs of its citizens and its relations with other states. First appeared 5000 years ago.

Answer 4

State

Question 5

People who share a collective identitybased on a common culture, language, territorial Base, and history.

Answer 5

Nation

Question 6

Referes to the right to command ot the power to give orders and enforce rules.

Answer 6

Authority

Question 7

Is a value whereby something or someone is acknowledged as acceptable, lawful, right or proper.

Answer 7

Legitimacy

Question 8

3 types of legitimacy

Answer 8

-Traditional
-Charismatic
-Rational

Question 9

Explains that a governing power must continue to rule as it is historically acceptable and the society has always been ruled by such a government

Found by monarchy and tribalism.

Answer 9

Traditional Legitimacy

Question 10

Springs from the persona charisma or inspiring ideas of the leader, a person whose imposing personality attracts and influences people to agreement with hos government’s regime and rule.

Answer 10

Charismatic Legitimacy

Question 11

Popular acceptance of authority, derived from a system of institutional processses, in which government institutions launch and impose law and order in accordance to the public interest.

Answer 11

Rational-Legal Legitimacy