Anthropology Chapter 11: Social Control and Social Conflict

An approach within legal anthropology that examines how law and judicial systems serve to amintain and expand dominant power interests rather than protecting marginal and less powerful people.

Processes that maintain orderly social life, including informal and formal mechanisms.
-Culturally defined rules and ways to ensure that people follow the rules.

A generally agreed-upon standard for how people should behave, usually unwritten and learned unconsciously.

A binding rule created through enactment or custom that deifnes rig ht and reasonable behavior and its enforceable by threat of punishment.

Try to get her to come back, if she won't, then let her go.
(if broken norm or law)

The exercise of social control through processes of surveillance and the threat of punishment related to maintaing social order.

A way of determining innocence or guilt in which the accused person is put to a test that may be painful, stressful, or fatal.

A situation in w hich more than one way exists of defining acceptable and unacceptable beahvior and ways to deal with the latter.

A form of aggressive conflict that involves socially patterned theft, usually practiced by a person or group of persons who are socially marginal and who may gain a mythic status.

Long-term retributive violence that may be lethal between families, groups of families, or tribes.

A political crisis prompted by illegal and often violent actions of subordinate groups that seek to chagne the political institutions or social structure of a society.

Organized and purposeful group action directed against another group and involving lethal force.

The study of military as a power structure in terms of its roles and interal social dynamics.

Low crime rate.
-Neighborhood police boxes and foot patrol. Volunteer crime prevention groups. High expectations of no false arrests. High rate of confession: police have more power than suspects.

The presions, as a place where people are forcibly detained as form of punishment.
-The US imprisons more people than any other country in the world by China.