Political Organization and Social Control

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4. Political Organization and Social Control: Band, tribe, chiefdom, kingdom and state; concepts of power, authority and legitimacy; social control, law and justice in simple Societies.

2024

Section d · 1. · Paper Q5(d) · 2024 · 10 marks · Solution

Authority and forms of political organization

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2022

Section a · 2. · Paper Q6(a) · 2022 · 20 marks · Solution

Discuss the mechanism of social control in different kinds of political systems

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2021

Section a · 3. · Paper Q3(a) · 2021 · 20 marks · Solution

How do political organisations of simple societies establish power, authority and legitimacy?

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2016

Section b · 4. · Paper Q3(b) · 2016 · 15 marks · Solution

Discuss different social control mechanisms in simple societies.

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4. Political Organization And Social Control

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4. Political Organization and Social Control

Band

Definition

Chiefs maintained autonomy even over non-tribals.
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Redistribution practiced even in harsh environments

Tribe

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1. Formative Phase (1774–1919)
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Herbert Risley: Racial theory of caste; The People of India. Thurston: Castes & Tribes of Southern India. Beginning: Institutionalisation of anthropology (Dept. of Anthropology, Calcutta University – 1920). Nature: Empirical fieldwork, study of social institutions.

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