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Exam 3
Race
9
Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
12/14/2009

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Term
What are three types of social stratification?
Definition

Egalitarian: bands/tribes

 

Ranked: Chiefdoms

 

Highly stratified: states (class system as open; caste system as closed)

Term
What are the features of state level societies?
Definition

intensive, commercialized food production

towns/cities; urban/rural

formal institutionalized leadership/centralized government/bureaucracy

military/police/laws/formals markets/foreign trade

Term
What are the three ways to classify societies?
Definition

Wealth

Power

Prestige

Term
Wealth
Definition
economic resources
Term
power
Definition
political resources
Term
Prestige
Definition
Social resources
Term
Egalitarian
Definition

Bands (San), Tribes (Maasai)

 

Equal access to wealth, power, prestige

Term
Ranked societies
Definition

Chiefdoms

 

Equal access to wealth, power but NOT prestige

 

Prestige depends on ranking of kinship to chief

Term
Highly stratified societies
Definition

State (nation-states)

 

Unequal access to wealth, power, prestige

Class (open)

Caste (closed)

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