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Title: anthropology chapter 11

Description: anthropology chapter 11

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Created: 04/14/2009 20:47:23

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Egalitarian society
 Definition
A society in which no individual or group has more privleged access to resources, power or prestige than any other.
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Rank society
 Definition
A society characterized by institutionalized differences in prestige but no important restrictions on access to basic resources
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Stratified society
 Definition
a society characterized by fornal. permanent social and economic inequality in which some people are denied accss to basic resources
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Ascribed status
 Definition
A social position that a person is born into
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achieved status
 Definition
A social psoition that a person chooses or achieves on his or her own
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Political ideology
 Definition
The shared beliefs and values that legitimize the distribution and use of power in a perticular society
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Factions
 Definition
Informal systems of alliance within well-defined political units such as lineages or villages.