Powerpoint Slides Week 5 pt. 2

Question 1

What is the difference between modes of production and means of production?

Answer 1

Modes of production- specific, historically occurring set of social relations through which labor is deployed to wrest energy from nature by means of tools, skills, organization, and knowledge

Means of production- tools, skills, and organization necessary to create subsistence goods, or goods/services for the market

Question 2

What are some of the different

modes of production?

Answer 2

(1) kinordered
(2) tributary
(3) capitalist

Question 3

Describe the tributary mode of production.

Answer 3

• typically found in farming or herding communities
• the primary producer, is allowed access to the means of production while tribute is extracted from him by political or military means

Question 4

Describe the kin-ordered mode of production.

Answer 4

• social labor is deployed based on kinship relations

- typically predominant in societies with little centralized authority

Question 5

Describe the capitalist mode of production.

Answer 5

• the means of production are owned by capitalists
• workers don’t own these means, and must sell their labor to the “capitalists”
• “capitalists” turn this labor into surplus wealth that is either retained by them or reinvested in the means of production to increase output or efficiency

Question 6

What are some examples of kin-ordered modes of production?

Answer 6

-gender or age based divisions of labor

Question 7

What are the relations of

production?

Answer 7

the social relations linking human beings who use a given means of production within a particular mode of production

Question 8

What are some examples of the relations of production?

Answer 8

• capitalists and laborers
• husbands/wives/children
• serfs and lords

Question 9

In order to persist, any social system must reproduce itself, in terms of social relationships and institutions.
This is called what?

Answer 9

Social Reproduction

Question 10

________- the cultural products of conscious reflection, such as morality, religion, or metaphysics, that are used to explain and justify the social arrangements under which people live.

Answer 10

ideology

Question 11

What is the difference between use-value and exchange-value ?

Answer 11

Use-value- the material uses to which the object can be put; the human needs it fulfills

Exchange-value- the value of the commodity that can be exchanged on the open market; compared to other objects by a “universal equivalent”

Question 12

How does supply and demand work?

Answer 12

Supply and demand match up and this point is called equilibrium.
Price and Quantity also meet up to create equilibrium.

Question 13

What is the difference between general purpose and special purpose money?

Answer 13

General purpose money- it serves as 
   (1) a mode of payment 
   (2) a means of exchange 
   (3) a standard of value 
Special purpose money- serves as only one or two of the functions of general purpose money

Question 14

What are three three types of powers?

Answer 14

(1) “Power over”
(2) “Power to”
(3) “Power with”

Question 15

Which type of power is this: The ability to limit the actions or possibilities of another?

Answer 15

“Power over”

Question 16

Which type of power is this: The ability to control your own actions or situations or to make choices?

Answer 16

“Power to”

Question 17

Which type of power is this: The ability to find common ground with others and form coalitions to help accomplish goals?

Answer 17

“Power with”

Question 18

What are Wolf’s “modes” of social power?

Answer 18

(1) Interpersonal power
(2) Organizational power
(3) Structural power

Question 19

Which of Wolf’s “modes” of social power is this: The ability of one individual to impose his or her will on another individual?

Answer 19

Interpersonal power

Question 20

Which of Wolf’s “modes” of social power is this: The ability of a group or individual to limit the actions of other individuals in particular social settings?

Answer 20

Organizational power

Question 21

Which of Wolf’s “modes” of social power is this: Control of social settings and the allocation of social labor?

Answer 21

Structural power

Question 22

________ social constraints on individuals’ actions or possibilities.

Answer 22

Structure

Question 23

_______-control of one’s actions, perspectives, thoughts, etc; the exercise of choice

Answer 23

Agency

Question 24

What is a stratified society?

Answer 24

Societies in which there is a permanent hierarchy that accords some members privileged access to wealth, power, and prestige.

Question 25

What are the two types of centralized society?

Answer 25

(1) state

(2) chiefdom

Question 26

What are the two types of “egalitarian” society?

Answer 26

(1) tribes

(2) bands

Question 27

What is a chiefdom?

Answer 27

A form of social organization in which the leader (a chief) and the chief’s close relatives are set apart from the rest of the society and allowed privileged access to wealth, power, and prestige.

Question 28

What is a state?

Answer 28

A stratified society that possesses a territory that is defended from outside enemies with an army and from internal disorder with police (sometimes).

Question 29

What are the different types of power/control?

Answer 29

(1) Coercion / physical force ž (2) Persuasion
(3) ž Hegemony
(4) ž Biopower and Governmentality

Question 30

Which type of power/control is this: the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner by use of intimidation or threats or some other form of pressure or force?

Answer 30

Coercion / physical force

Question 31

Which type of power/control is this: the action or fact of convincing someone or of being convinced to do or believe something?

Answer 31

Persuasion

Question 32

Which type of power/control is this: leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others; political or cultural dominance or authority over others.

Answer 32

Hegemony

Question 33

Which type of power/control is this: treating people more like numbers

Answer 33

Bipower and/or governmentality

Question 34

What is a moka?

Answer 34

The Moka is a highly ritualized system of exchange in the Mount Hagen area, Papua New Guinea, that has become emblematic of the anthropological concepts of “gift economy” and of “Big man” political system.

Question 35

Where did Ongka’s Big Moka take place?

Answer 35

New Guinea