Name: _______________________________________________________________
IB Social & Cultural Anthropology
Politics & Power
AIM: How does power lead to inequality?
1. How do societies deal with abnormal behavior and conflict?
2. What do laws address?
3. Define social contract.
4. What must anthropologists understand in relation to political analysis?
5. What is an egalitarian society?
6. Define shaman.
7. Define headman.
Date: _____
Period: ___
8. What is a sodality? Provide examples.
9. Discuss a rank society.
10. Discuss a stratified society.
11. Discuss the dimensions of stratification.
a. Power
b. Wealth
c. Prestige
12. Describe the difference between achieved v. ascribed status. Give examples of each.
13. What is social class in the US based off? What is the caste system of stratification based off?
14. What is a social group? Provide examples.