Practice Quiz Chapter 12

. ________ is power that organizes social settings and allocates the division of social labour.

. ________ is power that affects an entire social group.

. Societies are organized through ________.

. The decline of the orchard industry in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia is caused by ________.

. Successful hegemony involves ________.

. The rondas campesinas of Peru are an example of ________.

. According to Michel Foucault, biopower is preoccupied with ________.

. Power based on verbal argument is called ________.

. The scars of bondage thesis predicts that ________.

. According to historian Robert Nye, ________ remains the dominant model of identity in heteronormative societies.

. The patterning of human interdependence in a given society through the actions and decisions of its members is known as ________.

. This sort of power that refers to the ability to transform a situation that affects an entire social group is called ________ power.

. Of the three types of political power, ________ power is said to be the most insidious.

. The most appropriate label for the study of social and political power in human society is ________.

. The coercive review of power suggests that cooperative social living is not natural for humans because our innate instincts drive us toward ________.

. According to Karl Marx, dominated groups of humans all suffer from ________.

. Under a system of hegemony the rulers persuade subordinates to ________.

. Biopower is a type of power held by a modern government over the ________ of its citizens.

. The art of governing appropriate to promoting the welfare of populations within a state is a) referred to as ________.

. ________ is the term Karl Marx used to refer to the deep separation workers seem to experience between their innermost sense of identity and the labour that they are forced to do in order to earn money.

. Power based on coercive rule is known as ________.

. Essentially negotiable concepts are culturally recognized concepts that evoke a wide range of meanings and whose relevance in any particular context must be negotiated.

. The concept of hegemony was identified by Karl Marx.

. Hegemony is most easily established in the nation-state.

. The art of governing appropriate to promoting the welfare of populations within a state is referred to as governmentality.

. Anomie is the deep separation that individuals experience between their innermost sense of identity and the labour they are forced to perform in order to survive.

. The culture of the Bolivian tin miners contradicts the scars of bondage thesis.

. According to anthropologist John Gledhill, counter-hegemonic movements and everyday forms of peasant resistance are effective at improving conditions for dominated groups.

. The occasional violent outburst of one member of a foraging society against another is the same things as the organized violence of one army against another in a conflict between modern nation-states.

. The traditional Western prototype of power in human social relations is based on physical coercion.

. Anthropologists who study the exercise of power in different types of societies have found Antonio Gramsci's contrast between domination and hegemony to be unusable.

. The arrangements of social organization are ultimately somewhat arbitrary.

. There is only one form of power that matters in society.

. Eric Wolf's concept of structural power concerns power that organizes social settings themselves and controls the allocation of social labour.

. The nineteenth-century anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan demonstrated that kinship institutions had only minimal capacity to organize social life in non-state societies.

. Rulers do best if they can persuade the dominated population to accept their rule as legitimate.

. Gramsci provides a useful assessment of political control that contrasts the rule by persuasion with the rule by coercion.

. Foucault's notion of governmentality requires people to take turns leading the nation.

. Consensus represents an agreement to which all parties collectively give their assent.

. Karl Marx coined the terms anomie and alienation in his writings about labour.

. Essentially negotiable concepts are culturally recognized concepts that evoke a wide range of meanings and whose relevance in any particular context must be negotiated.

. Bolivian tin miners who ingest too much coca leaves while working become confused and are said to be "bargaining for reality" as they recover.

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