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Political Systems
Chapter 6
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
02/08/2011

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achieved status
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social status that comes through talents, actions, efforts, activities and accomplishments rather than asscription
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ascribed status
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social status that people have little or no choice over e.g race, gender
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big man
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figure found among tribal horticulturalistand pastoralist . the big man has no office but creates his reputation through enterpeneurship and generosity to other. neither wealth or his position passes to his heirs
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caste system
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closed, hereditary system of stratifacation, often dictated by religion hierarchical social status is ascribed at birth so that people are locked into their parents social position un like class system which is vertically and horizontally mobile
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3 deminsions of status
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power, prestiege, wealth
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power
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the ability to exercise ones will over others- to do what one wants; basis of political status
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prestiege
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esteem, respect or approval for acts, deeds or qualities considered exemplary
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wealth
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all a persons material assets including home, land and other types of property: the basis of economic status
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Service’s sociopolitical typology
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(band, tribe, chiefdom, state)
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Band
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basic unit of social organization. a band includes fewer than 100 people that splits up seasonally
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Tribe
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form of sociopolitical organization usually based on horticultural or pastoralism. socioeconomic stratifacation and centralized rule are absent in tribes and there is no means of enforcing political decision
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chiefdom
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form of sociopolitical organization intermediate between the tribe and the state; kin based with differential access to resources and permenant political power
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state
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complex sociopolitical system that administers a territory and populace with substantail contrasts in occupation, wealth, prestige and power and indepedndant, centrally organized political unit, a government
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social stratification
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contrasts in wealth, power and prestigeof men and women
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open-class systems
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stratification system that facilitates social mobility , with individual achievementand personal merit determining social rank
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vertical mobility
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upward or downward change is an individuals social status
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village head
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leadership position in village, has limited authority; leads by example and persuasion
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Issues: Correlations between Cohen’s adaptive strategies (means of making a living)
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sociopoltype:ecnomictype:examples:regulation

band:foraging:inuit,san:local
tribe:horticulture,pastoralism:Yanomami,Masai,Kapauku:local,temporary,regional

Cheifdom:intensive horticulture,pastoral,nomadism,agriculture:Qashqai:Polynesia,Cherokee:permenant, regional

State:agriculture,industrialism:Ancient Mesotamia, Comtemp U.S and Canada: permanent, regional
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Issues: Services political typology
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origin and rise of the state
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the creation of separate social strata is called stratifaction and its emergence signified the transition from cheifdom to state
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4 regulatory subsystems of all states
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(population control, fiscal, judiciary, enforcement systems);
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population control
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to know who they covern, states typically conduct censues. demarcate boundries that separate them from other societies. custom agents, immigration officers,navies and costal gaurds frontier. establishmnet of citizenship
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fiscal
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pertaining to finances and taxation
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judiciary
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laws, legal procedure, and judges
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enforcement systems
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permenent military and police forces
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Weber’s 3 dimension of differential social status/ stratification in state societies
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max webers 3 dimensions of stratification

wealth--->economic status
power----> political status
prestige-->social status
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