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political Flashcards

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class society

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stratified society has room for upward and downward mobility

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moots

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informal airings of disputes involving kinsmen and friends of litigants

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if you live in a state what is your main mode of subsistence

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intensive agriculture

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deviance

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social scientist use this term to refer to violation of social norms

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sanctions

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are both positive and negative because people are rewarded for behaving in socially acceptable ways and punished for violating the norms

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supernatural belief systems

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a powerful mechanism of social control in all types of societies

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ordeal

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a dangerous test to determine guilt

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rebellion

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attempts to displace the people in power

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pan tribal mechanism

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this cuts across and integrates all the local segments of the tribe into a larger whole
- in tribal
major difference between bands and tribal

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controvoseial assingment

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assisting the us military in afghansitan and iraq

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power

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

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political organzation

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the was in which the power gets distributed within society to control behavior and social order

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political integration

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relates to size of territorial group that comes under the control of poilitical structure
jurisdiction: ie : band, chiefdom, mutlicipal vs. federal

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political system

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band, tribe, chiefdom, states

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band

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smal and loosely organized. hunter and gather that are egalitarian (leadership is informal) have a headman

food collectors , high value on sharing

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headman

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no rewards. not expected to be judge no more material items

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tribal societies

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food producers(horticultureist)

man is recognized as leader by virtue of his personality traits, egalitarian

tribe becomes ethnic group in modern state

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clan

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group of kin who consider themselves to be descended from common ancestor

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chiefdom

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2 or more local group of tribe are organized under 1 chief. beg of hierarchy

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state

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centralized political system that has the capacity and authority to make laws and use fore to maintain social order

mesoptamia was the first state

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john doe vs. state

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state has to get you justice - first social classes strrucutre

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intensive agriculture

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large poplaution- 1 million people

highly developed system of production

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legitamacy

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the right of political leaders to exercise power, most gov use ideology

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politics and religion

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is used to legitamate political authorityy

chief are believe to pocks great powers, god on earth

us political uses the holy bible

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law

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formal neg sanctions that define relationships and prohibit behavior

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non centralized

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tribal and bad, if someone wrongs you its up to you and your family to get justice

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nonformal sanction

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boss taking you to dinner

28
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formal sanction

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getting a raise

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crime

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always state vs. person

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ethnoside

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when a dominant society diliberality sets out to destroy another society cultural heritaage

ex: irish and british and natives- forbidden rom dancing

31
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genocide

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deliberant act or as the accidental outcome of actives carved out by one people with little regards of others

jewish holocaust

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ethnic cleasning

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this term is used to downplay genocide used to prevent he international community

ex: basnia killing and raping women- called ethnic cleansing so that international community stays out

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civil disobienced

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characterized by use of passive resistance or other nonviolent

calling the legitimacy into uqestion- law biding people you can’t put them in jail

34
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henry david thoreau

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creator of civil disobedience

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witchcraft

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discourages people from engaging in social deviant behavior

36
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public opinon

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one of the most compelling reasons for not violating social norms

37
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deviance

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violation of social norms . its not the act itself bu how people define the action

38
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social contorl

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every society must ensure that most of the people have in approbate wasy

39
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song duels

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song contests that use instead of phsyical

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corportate lineage

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kinship groups who live work and play pray together form of public control

41
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lepord skin cief

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serves as a mediator between victims and family and am of murder negotiates settle meant

42
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oath

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formal declaration to some super natural power

43
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ordeal

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dangerous test to determine guilt

44
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stratified state

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societies are characterized by considerable ineuqalty in terms of power wealth and prestige

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vamas

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association with certain occupations in hindu

46
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caste

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no social mobility determined by birth

47
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achieved

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control personal efforts ; class system

48
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ascribed

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no control caste system

49
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untoucheables dalit

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lowest class . crushed or opressed people.

50
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headless socieities

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simple intermediate and complex not all societies fit neatly into a box

societies with out rulers

51
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positive sanction

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smile medal honor

52
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negative sanction

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frown or death penalty

53
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reciprocity

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ensures that no member of the group goes hungry

54
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bragging and bolsting

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is discouraged in hunting and gathering societies ; they will deflate when someone is bragging they do this to stay humble

55
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thank you

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is discouraged that is your calculating selfishness generosuity should be nautre

56
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kayapo

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a tribal group from brazil ; the idea of tribal designation is modern nation states allow a group souverignit from the nation state

57
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houses in kayapo

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circle; end is women men in the center and children come to house at certain age

warriar system starts at mens home, all decisions come from mens home

58
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if they kill animals

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make sure share your game; making sure they don’t become selfish

59
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when chief is gone..

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when he comes back show respect tot chief by fake crying

60
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how is power organized in kayo

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chiefdom 2 lines of organzation

along gender lines and age groups

have to show respect to who’s older only men can make political decisions

61
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woman in kayapo

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are both assertive and aggressive ..use mashaittii to indicated them

62
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civil disobedience

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cief payakan is organizer of this; chief roping is paykan mother brow they are working through matrilineal descent

63
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corn ceremoney

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pan tribal mechanism. uniting previous feuding tribes through this ceremony

all tribe began as 1 and eat corn from same tree

when corn split up they split up into different tribes

64
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the dam problem

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will flood the floor to make medicine , will destroy their way of life

65
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kayo uses media succesfully

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they get a rockstar to represent them to shame brazil

66
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imf pulled out funding

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for the damn for 20-25 year

Anthropology #2 (5 decks)

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