Deck 7: How States Work

Question 1

What problem of stratified societies do states solve?

A) democracy
B) justice
C) kinship
D) inequality of distribution
E) warfare with other societies

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The label "friendly fire," for being shot by your own side, is an example of what Orwell called:

A) public information
B) double-speak
C) propaganda
D) disinformation
E) misinformation

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The only way people know their worlds is through their:

A) media
B) faith
C) science
D) cultural codes
E) schools

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Thai people show their relative hierarchical position by:

A) body posture
B) greetings
C) pronouns of address
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 5

Shan kids learn the proper Thai greetings:

A) at home
B) from relatives
C) at school
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 6

People of states learn the assumptions of their culture from:

A) family
B) schools
C) religion
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 7

The great cultural revolution in the U.S. was sponsored by:

A) the government
B) corporations
C) schools
D) religions
E) political parties

Question 8

The Farm Bureau is:

A) a group that represents small farmers
B) a group that promotes agricultural knowledge
C) an association of farmers
D) a group that promotes corporate ideologies
E) a populist farm group

Question 9

Land grant universities in the U.S.:

A) have been instrumental in the demise of small farms in the U.S.
B) have promoted small farms across the U.S. and the world
C) have spread agricultural science to benefit small farmers
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 10

The reason for the color coded terror alert system in the U.S. is:

A) to inform travelers of objective levels of threat to them
B) to alert military travelers to the possibility that they will be called on for service
C) to persuade citizens that there should be a war on terror and they should be willing to surrender their civil rights
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 11

In states, religion acts as:

A) a means of thought control
B) a way to disconnect messages of the state from experience
C) a way to make people subservient
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 12

The difference between science and religion is:

A) in their stances toward belief
B) science is true and religion is not
C) religion is true and science is not
D) we will never know the truth
E) faith is more important than knowledge

Question 13

Institutions for mind control include:

A) offices of public information
B) churches
C) media
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 14

To give yourself real choices you must:

A) be an informed consumer
B) understand how your own society works
C) keep up on current events in the news
D) participate in the political process
E) know the consequences of your consumption decisions

Question 15

During the struggle to organize unions in the U.S. many people were killed by:

A) corporations
B) the government
C) police and detectives
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 16

In all state systems, the state provides labor for and protects the:

A) aristocrats
B) revolutionaries
C) subordinate class
D) ruling class
E) none of the above

Question 17

The main role of schools in all states is to teach:

A) technical knowledge
B) people to be subordinate
C) self-awareness
D) knowledge of the societies they are parts of
E) finances

Question 18

All stratified societies have classes.

Question 19

Offices of Public Information usually accurately inform the public.

Question 20

States invest resources to make people feel powerless.

Question 21

All states try to persuade people their enemies are somewhere else.

Question 22

he real enemy of most people is their own state.

Question 23

The problem with modern media is that they persuade people to get into the streets and cause trouble.

Question 24

We know today that the Inca kings controlled weather.

Question 25

All people are created equal.

Question 26

All people are equal.

Question 27

Shan people believe all people are created equal.

Question 28

Lisu people know they are all created equal.

Question 29

American people say they believe all people are created equal.

Question 30

When Thai people greet each other, they shake hands.

Question 31

In the Shan view, if all people are created equal, the Buddhist laws of karma must not be operative.

Question 32

In the American view, the laws of karma are operative.

Question 33

Thai culture is fundamentally egalitarian.

Question 34

Hierarchy is coded into the Thai language.

Question 35

Hierarchy is coded into the American language.

Question 36

People who grow up not expecting a fair world are willing to accept an unfair world.

Question 37

There have been societies without religion.

Question 38

Schools teach mainly useful knowledge.

Question 39

This examination is an example of thought control.

Question 40

American schools are especially prone to thought control and propaganda.

Question 41

The main function of education is to free the mind and spirit.

Question 42

The cost of continuity is creativity.

Question 43

The U.S. really has a two-party system.

Question 44

The profit motive is universal.

Question 45

In the U.S., management and union workers share fundamental assumptions about what is natural, right, fair and just.

Question 46

The Communist Manifesto is the basis for the cultural revolution in the U.S.

Question 47

The Gospel of Work is the basis of most contemporary American religions.

Question 48

Economics is a science.

Question 49

The role of most endowed professorships is to provide objective knowledge about the world.

Question 50

In the U.S., universities provide respectability for ideologies.

Question 51

Most choices American consumers make are meaningful decisions.

Question 52

Soviet experience in Afghanistan shows that American success there is possible.

Question 53

Most residents of the U.S. state of Iowa are aware that parts of their state were once under martial law.

Question 54

In the U.S., corporations continue the cultural revolution to this day.

Question 55

Americans tortured prisoners in Iraq.

Question 56

Pre-industrial states don't use mind control.

Question 57

All state religions ask people to believe things that are contrary to their experience.

Question 58

The U.S. Declaration of Independence is a radical document.

Question 59

Playing stupid is a form of resistance to state control.

Question 60

The transition to capitalism in England was much more humane than the transition to communism in China.

Question 61

The U.S. was founded on democracy, not force.

Question 62

American working people have always had the right to organize unions.

Question 63

Kinship is not an important organizing principle in states.

Question 64

In the U.S., a majority of the population must elect high political officials.

Question 65

True democracy means one person-one vote elections.

Question 66

List four anthropologists mentioned in this chapter:

Question 67

List the two means states use to solve the problem of inequality:

Question 68

List three principles states uphold by mind control and force to maintain order:

Question 69

Discuss the tensions inherent in stratified societies and possible resolutions for them.

Question 70

Discuss some examples of thought control that you've seen in the media recently.

Question 71

Discuss why states prefer thought control to the use of force. Give some examples from the text.

Question 72

Discuss some examples of thought control you can observe at your own college or university.

Question 73

Discuss how the American system would have to change to make it fair. Use a few examples from your own experience.

Question 74

Why do the authors of Anthropology Unbound say the U.S. has a one-party system?

Question 75

Discuss why the authors of the textbook say that choice in America is an illusion.

Question 76

Every modern industrial democracy has single-payer health insurance except the U.S. Why is that?

Question 77

Explain the process through which kinship ceases to be an important organizing principle in states.