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Chapter 9: Politics in Society

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Monarchy

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is a political system in which one person rules over all others in society, the result of succession that has been in place for generations with in the same family.

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Chiefdom

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is headed by a chief, a formal political head or leader, who exercises authority over all others within his realm, the commoners.

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Authoritatianism

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a political system where the general populace is prohibited from participating in the governance of society

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traditional authority

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this is a type of authority found mostly in pre-modern or pre-industrial societies, where values and beliefs are shared by virtually everyone in society.

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rational-legal authority

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is power derived from rules and regulations that are enacted legally

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tribes

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they compromise not just extended families in one location but many scattered self-sufficient communities or villages in different locations that are politically integrated on the basis either of kinship or non kinship groupings

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caste societies

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fixed and closed stratified systems

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Forms of Political Organization

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bands, tribes, chiefdoms, states

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achieved

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what you have accomplished

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stratified societies

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are those where wide differences among individuals and groups are not only permanent and formal but may also be inherited. can either be ascribed or achieved

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ascribed

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you are born with it

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Power

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ability to accomplish desired objectives even if there is resistance or opposition from others

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Democracy

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is a political system where power rest largely on the people in society.

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class societies

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are stratified based on the members' degree of ownership of material goods, degree of influence over others and level of respectability or esteem in society

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bands

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are made up of family or small number of extended families, usually nomadic, that cooperate to survive by foraging or hunting.

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rank societies

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societies where individuals and groups are formally differentiated in terms of prestige and symbolic resources, inherited or otherwise, but without any significant barriers on anyone accessing basic resources for survival

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Totalitarianism

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is a political system that is highly centralized and where people's lives are constantly monitored and regulated by those in power

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states

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the bureaucracy stands between those in power or the ruling elite an the commoners, creating a three-level system

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Authority

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is power that people vest or place in someone that they agree to follow

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income

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the sum total of the material rewards accumulated by a person over a given period

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social stratum

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those who share the same degree of access to the such wealth power and prestige

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