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Question 1:

________ is power that organizes social settings and allocates the division of social labour.
a) Structural power
b) Social power
c) Political power
d) Hidden power

Question 2:

________ is power that affects an entire social group.
a) Political power
b) Social power
c) Visible power
d) Structural power

Question 3:

Societies are organized through ________.
a) states
b) kin groups
c) non-kin groups
d) all of the above

Question 4:

The decline of the orchard industry in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia is caused by ________.
a) the development of resorts and recreational areas that resulted in the pollution of the reservoirs
b) over-irrigation that has salinized the water tables that supply the orchards with water
c) the development of resorts and recreational areas that has commoditized water to the degree that the land is no longer affordable for farmers
d) prolonged drought caused by climate change

Question 5:

Successful hegemony involves ________.
a) persuading the dominated class that the power of the ruling class is legitimate
b) ensuring that the dominated class receives sufficient economic compensation for their subordinate position
c) linking the understandings of the ruling and dominated classes into what appears to be mutual accommodation
d) force and coercion

Question 6:

The rondas campesinas of Peru are an example of ________.
a) Peruvian governmentality
b) how peasants have integrated traditional cultural patterns into a new social institution
c) routine repression enacted by the Peruvian government against the peasants
d) everyday forms of peasant resistance

Question 7:

According to Michel Foucault, biopower is preoccupied with ________.
a) managing the bodies of individual citizens, not of the population
b) refusing conformation to political forces
c) persuading subordinates to accept the ideology of the dominant group
d) managing the bodies of individual citizens and the “body” of the population

Question 8:

Power based on verbal argument is called ________.
a) coercion
b) resistance
c) consensus
d) persuasion

Question 9:

The scars of bondage thesis predicts that ________.
a) colonialized people are more resistant to feelings of alienation and anomie
b) societies that have never experienced colonialism are more susceptible to alienation and anomie
c) colonialized people will experience alienation and anomie more strongly than others
d) colonialized people will never be able to free themselves from the scars of the past

Question 10:

According to historian Robert Nye, ________ remains the dominant model of identity in heteronormative societies.
a) assertive homonormativity
b) persuasive femininity
c) progressive masculinity
d) hegemonic masculinity

Question 11:

Essentially negotiable concepts are culturally recognized concepts that evoke a wide range of meanings and whose relevance in any particular context must be negotiated.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

The concept of hegemony was identified by Karl Marx.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Hegemony is most easily established in the nation-state.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

The art of governing appropriate to promoting the welfare of a populations within a state is referred to as governmentality.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Anomie is the deep separation that individuals experience between their innermost sense of identity and the labour they are forced to perform in order to survive.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

The culture of the Bolivian tin miners contradicts the scars of bondage thesis.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

According to anthropologist John Gledhill, counter-hegemonic movements and everyday forms of peasant resistance are effective at improving conditions for dominated groups.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

The occasional violent outburst of one member of a foraging society against another is the same things as the organized violence of one army against another in a conflict between modern nation-states.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

The traditional Western prototype of power in human social relations is based on physical coercion.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Anthropologists who study the exercise of power in different types of societies have found Antonio Gramsci’s contrast between domination and hegemony to be unusable.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Cultural Anthropology, Third Edition: Chapter 11