Week 7 Quiz

In this course's terms, which statement defines authority?

Select one.

• Power that people accept as rightful
• The ability to make others act, even against their will
• Any title a leader holds, whether or not people accept it
• A rule that only a court may enforce

At the running fieldwork site, an illustrative farmers' market, vendors accept the market manager's stall assignments and weekly fee as rightful because the vendors' association votes on the market's rules. In this week's terms, what does that vote supply?

Select one.

• Power, because the manager can move vendors
• Legitimacy, the acceptance that turns power into authority
• A hereditary office over several communities
• Adjudication, because a third party decides

In Service's model of political organization, which type is a hereditary office that holds authority over several communities, often with redistribution through the leader?

Select one.

• A band
• A tribe
• A chiefdom
• A state

A classmate says, "A chiefdom is a small state, because a chief is in charge of several villages." What is the best correction?

Select one.

• A chiefdom is a larger and more advanced state
• A chiefdom has no leader who can direct anyone
• A chiefdom is a step every state passed through
• A chiefdom's office is hereditary; a state has a taxing government

In Fried's scheme, which type of society has fewer positions of prestige than people able to fill them, while access to basic resources is not unequal?

Select one.

• A rank society
• An egalitarian society
• A stratified society
• A band

True or false: in Fried's scheme, an egalitarian society is one in which everyone is the same, with no differences among people.

True or false.

• True
• False

At an illustrative pickup basketball game with no referee, the players stop picking a player who keeps calling fouls. Which form of social control is that?

Select one.

• Law, because a rule was broken
• Shunning, an informal means of social control
• Mediation, because the players settle it among themselves
• Ridicule, because the player is mocked

Two vendors at the illustrative market disagree about whether bagging a regular's order before the bell counts as selling early. Suppose the vendors' association hears both sides and decides by a vote. Which route of dispute resolution is that?

Select one.

• Negotiation, because the vendors settle it
• Mediation, because a third party helps them agree
• Adjudication, because a third party decides
• Gossip, because other vendors talk about it

At the illustrative market, 4 of the 50 coded exchanges were redistribution through the "Pantry" crate. What percent of the coded exchanges was redistribution?

Select one.

• 4 percent, the count itself
• 46 percent, because 50 − 4 = 46
• 12.5 percent, because 50 ÷ 4 = 12.5
• 8 percent, because 4 ÷ 50 × 100 = 8

Why does the illustrative market's "Pantry" crate count as redistribution rather than reciprocity?

Select one.

• Vendors swap goods of matched value through it
• Goods pool at a center and the manager passes them on
• Shoppers buy the goods in it at the posted prices of each stall
• Vendors keep no count of what goes in it