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14 Cards in this Set
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social organization
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The patterning of human interdependence in a given society through the actions and
decisions of its members. |
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power
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Transformative capacity; the ability to transform a given situation.
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political anthropology
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The study of social power in human society.
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free agency
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The freedom of self-contained individuals to pursue their own interests above everything else
and to challenge one another for dominance. |
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ideology
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A worldview that justifies the social arrangements under which people live.
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domination
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Coercive rule.
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hegemony
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Persuading subordinates to accept the ideology of the dominant group by mutual
accommodations that nevertheless preserve the rulers’ privileged position. |
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governmentality
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The art of governing appropriate to promoting the welfare of populations within a state
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resistance
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The power to refuse being forced against one’s will to conform to someone else’s wishes.
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consensus
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An agreement to which all parties collectively give their assent.
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persuasion
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Power based on verbal argument.
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anomie
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A pervasive sense of rootlessness and normlessness in a society.
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alienation
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A term used by Karl Marx to describe the deep separation that workers seemed to experience
between their innermost sense of identity and the labor they were forced to perform in order to earn enough money to live. |
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essentially negotiable concepts
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Culturally recognized concepts that evoke a wide range of meanings and
whose relevance in any particular context must be negotiated. |