Question 1

Describe and discuss the dimensions of social stratification found across cultures.

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Social stratification refers to the hier...

Question 2

Age-set sodalities are found in

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A)   bands.
B)   tribes.
C)   chiefdoms.
D)   states.

Question 3

Nation states share all of the following features EXCEPT

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A)   common geographical location.
B)   stratified social classes.
C)   culture and history.
D)   type of political organization.

Question 4

An anthropological study of politics will include a consideration of

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A)   power and authority.
B)   sanctions.
C)   decision making.
D)   all of the above

Question 5

In Knauft's comparative study of murder rates, the highest rate per one hundred thousand people was in which area or society?

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A)   Samoa, Polynesia
B)   Ju/'hoansi, Africa
C)   Gebusi, New Guinea
D)   Houston-Baytown-Sugarland, Texas C

Question 6

Supernatural connections to political leadership are most closely associated with

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A)   bands.
B)   tribes.
C)   chiefdoms.
D)   states.

Question 7

Sodalities first appear at which societal level?

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A)   band.
B)   tribe.
C)   chiefdom.
D)   nation.

Question 8

Inuit (Eskimo)  song duels are considered

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A)   formal means of social control.
B)   informal means of social control.
C)   part of the court system.
D)   part of the moot system. A

Question 9

Cephu, a Mbuti pygmy who was caught stealing meat from the group, was punished by

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A)   exile from the group.
B)   physical punishment.
C)   ridicule and ostracism.
D)   fines in the form of material goods.

Question 10

Studies of the adaptation made by rural peoples as they move to cities are known as

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A)   diffusion studies.
B)   urbanization studies.
C)   stratification studies.
D)   class studies.

Question 11

The Ju/'hoansi are best described as a band because

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A)   leadership is inherited.
B)   they have an egalitarian social structure.
C)   leaders require gifts from the community.
D)   the leader is called a Big Man.

Question 12

The leadership features of tribal societies are most similar to

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A)   bands.
B)   chiefdoms.
C)   states.
D)   nations.

Question 13

Chiefdoms differ from tribes primarily as a result of the

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A)   environments they inhabit.
B)   accumulation of goods.
C)   hereditary office of chief.
D)   domestic mode of production.

Question 14

Compare and contrast the power and authority of leaders in bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states.

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In bands, leadership is typically inform...

Question 15

Bands are very flexible social groupings because

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A)   leaders continually rotate positions of authority.
B)   leadership is not concentrated in one individual.
C)   food resources are concentrated in one area.
D)   the kinship division of labor is egalitarian.

Question 16

According to Elman Service, the basic types of political structure include

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A)   bands, tribes, and kingdoms.
B)   bands, tribes, and states.
C)   bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
D)   bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and nations. C

Question 17

A sodality is associated with a(n)

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A)   egalitarian kinship organization.
B)   similar residence location.
C)   similar kinship affiliation.
D)   shared interests and concerns among its members.

Question 18

Rank societies are those where individuals gain prestige and wealth by using

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A)   coercive power.
B)   persuasive power.
C)   coercive authority.
D)   simple authority.

Question 19

To the author's query about the many tethered pigs in the Cook Islands, she was told that they were used as

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A)   an item for bride price negotiations.
B)   payment for debts.
C)   a gift to the Ariki chief.
D)   funeral offerings.

Question 20

Politics is difficult to define cross-culturally because

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A)   leadership is inherited in some cultures.
B)   individual cultures do not view the use of power as a political force.
C)   one culture views another culture's politics ethnocentrically.
D)   there are few common features in political systems.

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