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| A society in which no individual or group has more priveleged access to resources, power, or prestige than any other. |
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| A society characterized by institutionalized differences in prestige but no important restrictions on access to basic resources |
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| A society characterized by formal, permanent social and economic inequality in which some people are denied access to basic resources |
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| Social position that a person is born into |
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| a social position that a person chooses or achieves on his or her own |
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| the ability to contol resources in one's own interest |
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| The ability to cause others to act based on characteristics such as honor, status, knowledge, ability, respect, or the holding of formal public office |
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| The shared beliefs and values that legitimize the distribution and use of power in a particular society |
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| Informal systems of alliance within well-defined political units such as lineages or villages. |
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| A means of social control and dispute management through the systematic application of force by those in society with the authority to do so. |
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| The patterened ways in which power is ligitimately used in a society to regulate behavior |
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| A small group of people related by blood or marriage who live together and are loosely associated with a territory in which they forage |
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| A culturally distinct population whose members consider themselves descended from the same ancestor |
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| A group of people of similar age and sex who move through some or all of life's stages together |
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| Specialized hierarchical associations based on age, which stratify a society by seniority |
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| Segmentary lineage system |
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| A form of sociopolitical organization in which multiple descent groups form at different levels and function in different contexts |
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| A political structure in which higher-order units form alliances that emerge only when lower-order units come into conflict |
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| A self-made leader who gains power through personal achievements rather than through political office |
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| A form of managing disputes that uses the offices of a third party to achieve voluntary agreement between disputing parties |
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| A society with social ranking in which political integration is achieved though an office of centralized leadership called the chief. |
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| Lacking a goverment head or chief |
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| Tributary mode of exchange |
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| The primary porducers, whether pastoral of agricultural, are allowed access to the means of production, and tribute is exacted from them by political or military means |
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| A hierarchical, contralized form of political organization in which a central government has a legal monopoly over the use of force |
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| An interrelated set of status roles that become separate from other aspects of social organization, such as kinship |
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