Chap 11

Question 1

essentially negotiable concepts

Answer 1

Culturally recognized concepts that evoke a wide range of meanings and whose relevance in any particular context must be negotiated

Question 2

Alienation

Answer 2

The deep separation that individuals experience between their innermost sense of identity and the labour they are forced to perform in order to survive

Question 3

Anomie

Answer 3

A pervasive sense of rootlessness and normlessness in a society.

Question 4

Consensus

Answer 4

An agreement to which all parties collectively give their assent

Question 5

Persuasion

Answer 5

Power based on verbal argument

Question 6

Resistance

Answer 6

The power to refuse being forced against ones will to conform to someones else’s wishes

Question 7

Governmentality

Answer 7

The act of governing appropriate to promote the welfare of populations within a state.

Question 8

Domination

Answer 8

Coercive rule

Question 9

Hegemony

Answer 9

A system of leadership in which rulers persuade subordinates to accept the ideology of the dominate group by offering mutual accommodations that nevertheless preserve the rulers privileged positions

Question 10

Free agency

Answer 10

The freedom of self contained individuals to pursue their own interests above everything else and to challenge one other for dominance

Question 11

political anthropology

Answer 11

The study of social power in human

Question 12

Power

Answer 12

Transformative capacity; the ability to transform a given situation

Question 13

Social Organization

Answer 13

the patterning of human interdependence in a given society through the actions and decisions of its members