ANTH 1020 Final: ANTH 1020 - Final Study Guide
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Power: the ability to exercise one"s will over others -- to do what one wants; the basis of political status. Authority: the formal, socially approved use of power ex. by government officials. Band: basic unit of social organization among foragers. A band includes fewer than one hundred people; it often splits up seasonally. Tribe: form of a sociopolitical organization usually based on horticulture or pastoralism. Socioeconomic stratification and centralized rule are absent in tribes, and there is no means of enforcing political decisions. Chiefdom: form of sociopolitical organization intermediate between the tribe and the state; kin-based with differential access to resources and a permanent political structure. State: complex sociopolitical system that administers a territory and populace with substantial contrasts in occupation, wealth, prestige, and power. An independent, centrally organized political unit, a government. Shame: a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
