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power
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the ability of individuals or groups to impose their will upon others and make them do things emen against their own wants or wishes
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political orgainization
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the way power is distributed and embedded in society; the means through which a society creates and maintains social order and reduces soceal disorder
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band
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a relatively small and loosely organized kin-ordered gropu that inhabits a specific territory and that may split periodically into smaller extended family groups that are politically independent
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tribe
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in anthropology, refers to a range of kin-ordered groups that are politically integrated by some unifying factor and whose members share a common ancestry, identity, culture, language and territory
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chiefdom
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a regionalpolity in which two or more local groups are organized under a single chief, who is at the head of a ranked hierarchy of people
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state
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in anthroplopgy, a centralized political system that has the capacity and authority to make laws and use force to maintain social order
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nation
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a people who share a collective identity based on a common culture, language, territorial base and history.
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legitimacy
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the right of political leaders to govern- to hold, use, and allocate power- based on the values a particualar society holds
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cultural control
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control through beliefs and values deeply internalized in the minds of individuals
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social control
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external control through open coercion
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sanctions
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externalized social controls designed to encourage conformity to social norms
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law
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formal rules of conduct that, when violated, lead to negative sanctions
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negotiation
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the use of direct argument and compromise by the parties to a dispte to arrive voluntarily at ta mutually satisfactory agreement
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mediation
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settlement of a dispute through negotiation assisted by an unbiased third party
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adjudication
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mediation with an unbiased third party making the ultimate decision
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