Question

Match the correct definition to the key term. A system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society's resources. A group based on the sharing of resources to ensure success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence. The exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties. A group in which wealth is not stratified but prestige and status are. A form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and allocated in a different pattern. Elaborate redistribution ceremony practiced among the Kwakiutl of the Pacific Northwest. a. egalitarian society b. reciprocity c. class d. redistribution e. ranked society f. potlatch

Answer 1

A) Egalitarian society a group based on the sharing of resources to ensure success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence

B) Reciprocity the exchange of resources, goods, and services, among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties

C) Class a system of power based on wealth, income, status that creates an unequal distribution of a society's resources

D) Redistribution the form of exchange in which goods are collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern

E) Ranked Society a group in which wealth is not stratified but prestige and status are

F) Potlatch elaborate redistribution ceremony practiced among the Kwakitutl of the Pacific Northwest