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18 Cards in this Set
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Power
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the ability to take action in the face of resistance, through force if necessary
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Authority
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the ability to take action based on a person's achieved or ascribed status or moral reputation
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Influence
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the ability to achieve a desired end by exerting social or moral pressure on someone or some group
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Political Organization
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groups within a culture that are responsible for public decision making and leadership, maintaining social cohesion and order, protecting group rights, and ensuring safety from external threats
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Band
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the form of political organization of foraging groups, with flexible membership and minimal leadership
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Tribe
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a form of political organization that comprises several bands or lineage groups, each with a similar language and lifestyle and occupying a distinct territory
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Big-man system or big-woman system
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a form of political organization midway between tribe and chiefdom and involving reliance on the leadership of key individuals who develop a political following through personal ties and redistributive fears
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Moka
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a strategy for developing political leadership in highland Papua New Guinea that involves exchanging gifts and favors with individuals and sponsoring large feasts where further gift-giving occurs
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Chiefdom
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a form of political organization in which permanently allied tribes and villages have one recognized leader who holds an "office"
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State
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a form of political organization in which a centralized political unit encompasses many communities, a bureaucratic structure, and leaders who possess coercive power
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Social control
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processes that, through both informal and formal mechanisms, maintain orderly social life
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Norm
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a generally agreed-upon standard for how people should behave, usually unwritten and learned unconsciously
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Law
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a binding rule created through enactment or custom that defines right and reasonable behavior and is enforceable by the threat of punishment
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Policing
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the exercise of social control through processes of surveillance and the threat of punishment related to maintaining social order
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Trial by Ordeal
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a way of determining innocence or guilt in which the accused person is put to a test that may be painful, stressful or fatal
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Critical Legal Anthropology
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an approach within the cross-cultural study of legal systems that examines the role of law and judicial processes in maintaining the dominance of powerful groups through discriminatory practices rather than protecting less powerful power
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Nation
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a group of people who share a language, culture, territorial base, political organization and history
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War
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organized and purposeful group action directed against another group and involving lethal force
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