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Warfare or War
What is A formally organized and culturally recognized pattern of collective violence directed toward other societies, or between segments within a larger society called?
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Power is the ability to impose one's will on others while authority is the socially approved use of power.
How does power differ from authority?
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Ridicule, criticism, avoidance, gossip, disguest, mockery, public humiliation
Name two of the ways of Informal Social Control
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Yes
Are the leaders usually elders in band societies?
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Deviants
DeviantsWhat are those who transgress society's rules called?
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Through personal characteristics such as honor, status, knowledge, ability, respect and/ or the holding of formal public office.
How can authority be achieved?
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Laws, Law Enforcement, Justice System
Name the three formal control systems:
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It redistributes wealth and stimulates or discourages types of production.
What does taxation do?
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Stratified Society
What is a society characterized by formal, permanent social and economic inequality in which some people are denied access to basic resources called?
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Through material profit, prestige, altruism, or survival
How can decisions and activities by some groups be motivated?
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Parents/ Family, Peers/Friends, Bosses/ Co-Workers, Authority Figures, Street Signs, Advertising, Yourself
Name four out of the seven agents of control
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Yes
Is warfare frequent in state societies?
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Bureaucracy
What is Administrative hierarchy characterized by specialization of function and fixed rules called?
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Egypt
What example did we use for revolution?
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"mechanisms of social control by which rules or law prohibit deviant criminal behavior." or something to that effect
Define Formal Social Control
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Through public contests involving physical action.
How do band societies solve conflicts?
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Acephalous
What is Lacking a government head or chief called?
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How they use power to maintain themselves
What does the political organization of a society tell us?
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Brings change in one form or another.
What does conflict do?
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Melanesia and New Guinea
Where in the world do they use bigmen?
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