Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Angela Lockard Reed

Outline 10, October 29, 2003

Political Organization

I           Political Organization:  Know Table 12.1

            A          Uncentralized Political Systems

                        1          Band

                        2          Tribe

            B          Centralized Political Systems

                        1          Chiefdom

                        2          State

II           Maintaining Social Order

            A          Cultural control

            B          Externalized controls

                        1          Social control

                        2          Sanctions

                                    a          positive sanctions

                                    b          negative sanctions

                                                -           laws

            C         Dispute-settlement procedures: 

                        1          Negotiation

                        2          Mediation

                        3          Adjudication

                        4          Moot vs. Court

                                    a          Moot

                                    b          Court