POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

Question 1

Societies always have some kind of political system, the institution concerned with directing and organizing the collective action of all society’s member.

T or F

Answer 1

T

Question 2

Are made up of a family or small number of extended families, usually nomadic, that cooperate to survive by foraging or hunting.

Answer 2

BAND

Question 3

The size of bands may vary with the seasons. One society can have many __ existing all at the same time.

Answer 3

BAND

Question 4

Political decision-making in a band is formal.

T or F

Answer 4

F - informal

Question 5

the band leader who rules informally and is often chosen by the members due to some personal skills or powers like bravery or proficiency in hunting

Answer 5

HEADMAN

Question 6

Comprises not just extended families in one location but many scattered self-sufficient communities or villages in different locations that are politically integrated on the basis of either kinship or non-kinship groupings.

Answer 6

TRIBE

Question 7

Their political integration is informal because there are no formalized political positions or offices and therefore no institutionalized or fixed power and authority.

Answer 7

TRIBE

Question 8

Tribal leadership is informal, based largely on influencing or persuading others.

T or F

Answer 8

T

Question 9

Here elders tend to become leaders and have more influence over the rest

Answer 9

TRIBE

Question 10

familial ties by virtue either of birth or marriage – where relatives are reckoned over generations – become the basis for membership, regardless of location.

Answer 10

TRIBE

Question 11

___ is based on age set, on the other hand, is formed through a particular group of people of similar age and sex going though the same stages in life regardless of the community or kinship they come from.

Answer 11

TRIBE

Question 12

Is headed by chief, a formal political head or leader, who exercises authority over all others within his realm, the commoners

Answer 12

CHIEFDOM

Question 13

The position is often hereditary, passed from one person to another, usually among males within a single kinship group.

Answer 13

CHIEFDOM

Question 14

occupies the top position on the basis of some supernatural powers from which he rules over commoners. Therefore, the __ is usually both secular and a spiritual leader.

Answer 14

chief

Question 15

Chiefdom and states share one thing in common

Answer 15

political structure is centralized

Question 16

States have something that chiefdoms do not have and it is called the

Answer 16

bureaucracy

Question 17

State rulers are not able to exercise control over the entire state only because they delegate certain tasks to a bureaucracy.

T or F

Answer 17

F - are able

Question 18

Bureaucracy is composed of men and women called bureaucrats who have been given limited power and authority to act on behalf of the ruler.

T or F

Answer 18

T