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Anthro 1010 Vocab
Chapter 8
Term | Definition |
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Economic resources | Things that have value in a culture, including land, tools and other technology, goods, and money |
Power | The ability to make others do what they don't want to do; influence based on the threat of force |
Prestige | Being accorded particular respect or honor |
Egalitarian societies | Societies in which all people of a given age-sex category have equal access to economic resources, power, and prestige |
Rank societies | Societies that do not have any unequal access to economic resources or power, but with social groups that have unequal access to status positions and prestige. |
Class Societies | Societies containing social groups that have unequal access to economic resources, power, and prestige. |
Class | A category of people who have about the same opportunity to obtain economic resources, power and prestige |
Caste | A ranked group often associated with a certain occupation, in which membership is determined at birth and marriage is restricted to members of one's own caste |
Slaves | A class of people who do not own their own labor or the products thereof |
Manumission | The granting of freedom to a slave |
Racism | The belief, without scientific basis, that some "races" are inferior to others |
Race | refers to the different gene frequencies within a subpopulation |
Ethnicity | Refers to a group of people by their common origins and language, shared history, and select aspects of cultural difference |