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ANT2100 Exam 3 Questions and Answers 100% Pass social organization - - rules and structures that govern relations within a group of interacting people, Societies are divided into social units (groups) within which are recognized social positions (statuses), with appropriate behavior patterns pr...

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social organization - ✔✔- rules and structures that govern relations within a group of interacting people,

Societies are divided into social units (groups) within which are recognized social positions (statuses),

with appropriate behavior patterns prescribed for these positions (roles).


residential groups - ✔✔appear in the archaeological record as households and villages


nonresidential groups - ✔✔manifested archaeologically through the use of symbols, ceremonies,

mythologies or insignias of membership


political organization - ✔✔- the formal and informal institutions that regulate a society's collective acts


- control may be at level of residential or nonresidential level


- four broad areas of human social and political behavior: gender, kinship, social status and trade.


gender role - ✔✔- function


- the culturally prescribed behavior associated with men and women; roles can vary from society to

society


- some societies recognize men who live as women or women who live as men as a third gender


gender ideology - ✔✔- status


- the culturally prescribed values assigned to the task and status of men and women; values can vary

from society to society




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,berdaches - ✔✔- among Plain Indian societies, men who elected to live life as women; they were

recognized by their group as a third gender


chiefdom - ✔✔- a regional polity in which two or more local groups are organized under a single chief

(who is the head of a ranked social hierarchy, inherits position)


- job specializations, agriculture, trade, fishing


- redistribution of resources by chief


- single religion


- social classes


- 10,000+ population, permanent settlements, communal voluntary projects


- unlike autonomous bands and villages, chiefdoms consist of several more or less permanently aligned

communities or settlements


state - ✔✔- multiple cities and/or city-states


- leadership can be inherited, warfare, elected


- job specialization, agriculture, trade, market, economy


- social and economic classes


- single/multiple religions


- taxes


- draft for military and/or communal projects


androcentric - ✔✔- a perspective that focuses on what men do in society, to the exclusion of women


- i.e. hunting weaponry assumed to be always male, plant collecting hear always female




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, cargo system - ✔✔- part of the social organization found in many Central American communities in

which a wealthy responsible married man is selected to direct the ceremonial system/bear the cost of

important religious ceremonies throughout the year


- the wife takes the title of "mother of" the man's named position


- men and women occupy complementary roles during the feasts of the cargo system


kinship system - ✔✔- kinship refers to the socially recognized network of relationships through which

individuals are related to one another by ties of descent (real or imagined) and marriage


- a kinship blends biological descent with cultural rules that define some people as close kin and others as

distant kin


- kin groupings condition the nature of relationships between individuals


bilateral kinship - ✔✔- a kinship system in which relatives are traced equally on both the mother's and

father's sides


- standard kinship in North America


- you may be closer to your mother or fathers side due to divorce, geography, or personalities, but neither

side of the family is more important than the other


patrilineal descent - ✔✔- a unilineal descent system in which ancestry is traced through the male line


- most important group is patrilineage (people to whom you are related through the male line)


- make up about 60% of the world's known societies


- associated with foragers, agricultural and pastoral societies and internal warfare


matrilineal descent - ✔✔- trace their lineage from the mother's family


- rare, only about 10% of the world's societies




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