This is Anthropology Final Exam

Ability to impose will on others, make them do things they dont want to

Found in egaltarian societies, no fixed government, marriage kinship ties political methods of social organization, important decisions usually reached by consensus, flexibility, freedom

Relatively small, egaltarian, loosely organized kin-ordered groups that inhabit a common territory, food-foraging, mobile, likely oldest form of political organization, conflicts settled through consensus via gossip, mediation, or negotiation, individuals who break social norms held accountably by public opinion

How societies accumulate, arrange, execute, distribute power; create/maintain social order

Political authority and power are concentrated in either 1) a single individual (chief) or 2) the body of individuals (state)

Wide range of kin-ordered groups; politically integrated by a unifying factor, members share a common ancestry, identity, culture, language, territory

Study political organizations; the roles/processes for making decisions, mobilizing action, choosing leaders, settling disputes, enforcing social norms

Regionally, politically organized society in which 2 or more local groups are organized under one ruler. THE CHIEF

Political institution established to manage and defend a complex, socially stratified society occupying a defined territory

A people who share a collective identity based on a common culture, language, territorial base, history

In which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territorial state but still maintain their cultural differences

The right of leaders to govern (to hold, use, and allocate power)

Religion frequently legitimizes political order/leadership, both in the past and in the present

Self-control through beliefs/values deeply internalized in the minds of society members. relies on deterrents such as gossip, criticism, fear of supernatural punishment, etc.

External control through open coercion