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| What are three types of social stratification? |
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Egalitarian: bands/tribes
Ranked: Chiefdoms
Highly stratified: states (class system as open; caste system as closed) |
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| What are the features of state level societies? |
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intensive, commercialized food production
towns/cities; urban/rural
formal institutionalized leadership/centralized government/bureaucracy
military/police/laws/formals markets/foreign trade |
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| What are the three ways to classify societies? |
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Bands (San), Tribes (Maasai)
Equal access to wealth, power, prestige |
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Chiefdoms
Equal access to wealth, power but NOT prestige
Prestige depends on ranking of kinship to chief |
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| Highly stratified societies |
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State (nation-states)
Unequal access to wealth, power, prestige
Class (open)
Caste (closed) |
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