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1

The duties or guidelines for behavior in that status and specifications for relationships to other statuses are called:
A)roles
B)statuses
C)cultures
D)authorities
2

Statuses that are chosen or acquired during someone's lifetime are:
A)ascribed
B)namesakes
C)achieved
D)inherited
3

What term describes a group in a hierarchy of groups distinguished on the basis of privileges made possible by control over valuable resources, such as wealth?
A)band
B)class
C)formal social structure
D)tribe
4

What term defines the ability to influence the ideas and actions of others, to set the agenda for the group, and to control human and other resources?
A)state
B)power
C)egalitarian
D)prestige
5

The right granted to exercise power is called:
A)tribalism
B)political economy
C)hierarchy
D)authority
6

Among the four sociopolitical types defined by Service, the ______ is a geographically mobile group of 25 to 50 people who reside and travel together.
A)state
B)chiefdom
C)band
D)tribe
7

Large kin groups whose members claim descent from mythical beings are called:
A)clans
B)lineages
C)hierarchies
D)ascribed
8

Large kin groups whose members trace descent from a common ancestor are called:
A)clans
B)lineages
C)matrilineal
D)headmen
9

The sociopolitical type with a powerful central government, the authority to wield power over most aspects of its members' lives, and with a hierarchy of classes is called:
A)a band
B)a tribe
C)a chiefdom
D)a state
10

What term describes relationships formed by naming a child after another person, usually a kin person beyond the nuclear family?
A)hxaros
B)namesakes
C)bride-service
D)classes
11

When there few status or authority differences between individuals except between generations, relations are:
A)authoritarian
B)aristocratic
C)matrilineal
D)egalitarian
12

When something is passed from the father to his first son, this is called:
A)patrilineal primogeniture
B)patrilineal endogamy
C)patrilocal
D)clan
13

What term describes differences in prestige without significant differences in power?
A)authority
B)rank
C)totalitarianism
D)political economy
14

A large, formal social structure based on kinship and collective control of income-producing property is called a(n):
A)chiefdom
B)tribe
C)corporate lineage
D)miscegenation
15

The cultural rule of marrying someone outside of one's kin group is called:
A)exogamy
B)endogamy
C)polygyny
D)polyandry







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