Flashcards in Chap 11 Deck (13):
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essentially negotiable concepts
Culturally recognized concepts that evoke a wide range of meanings and whose relevance in any particular context must be negotiated
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Alienation
The deep separation that individuals experience between their innermost sense of identity and the labour they are forced to perform in order to survive
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Anomie
A pervasive sense of rootlessness and normlessness in a society.
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Consensus
An agreement to which all parties collectively give their assent
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Persuasion
Power based on verbal argument
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Resistance
The power to refuse being forced against ones will to conform to someones else's wishes
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Governmentality
The act of governing appropriate to promote the welfare of populations within a state.
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Domination
Coercive rule
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Hegemony
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
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Free agency
The freedom of self contained individuals to pursue their own interests above everything else and to challenge one other for dominance
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political anthropology
The study of social power in human
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Power
Transformative capacity; the ability to transform a given situation
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