Social institutions Characteristics of social institutions 1. They are resistant to change. Patterns of social behavior become institutionalized when they are reinforced by custom and tradition 2. They are interdependent. A societies institutions uphold similar values and norms to reflect compatible goals and priorities 3. They change together. Because institutions are interdependent a change in one will bring change Ina another 4. They are the site of social problems. For example
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Political power‚ religion‚ and economy are the three basic components that determine how any type of chiefdom‚ state‚ or even empire is to prosper and properly run. Dating back to before 5000 BC the first settlement of Ubaid in southern Mesopotamia used these tools to run a functional community. These traits showed their importance by how they were carried all the way on to the first civilization of Olmec in Mesoamerica. Although the Olmecs revitalized certain aspects of what a perfect political
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and reputation and contribute to political discussion. Everyone could voice his or her opinions and then consensus was reached on a solution. Centraliped state societies: like the Nzema‚ Akan‚ Asante‚ Dahomey Multi-ethnic through expansions. Chiefdoms were popular and governed by a central bureaucracy
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developments of each culture to each cultures end. Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian town in North America – five times the size of its nearest competition (Thomas 152). Cahokia was composed of a number of competing chiefdoms‚ sometimes consolidating into a single paramount chiefdom and other times warring with one another. Cahokia was home to 10‚000 – 15‚000 people and perhaps tens of thousands more lived in the surrounding floodplains
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“Local Government act of 2004 was enacted to address the undemocratic principle of centralisation and state administration. Districts and chiefdom councils have been reconstituted and they have been functioning since their inauguration after the first Local Council elections conducted under the new dispensation in 2004. Whether the establishment of district and chiefdom councils and the entire decentralisation process have positively impacted the lives of the people of Sierra Leone are issues which experts
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from (Nguni) chiefdom. Neighboring chiefdoms were the Sotho‚ Tswana‚ and the closest to the Zulu were the San in which the Zulu incorporated their lifestyle patterns from them. Rural Zulu main form of subsistence is pastoralizing and agriculturalist herding cattle and farming corn and vegetables which included labor intensive work and domestic duties (http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Zulu.html.) The Zulu believed in Nyulunkulu a creator god from the spirit world in which chiefdoms called mana
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chapter then went on to describe many things and suggested that archaeology answers some of the questions we all have about how mankind developed into its present state. Actually‚ the present state is “State.” We have evolved from Bands to Tribes to Chiefdoms to States. The first part of the chapter describes each of the four stages. For example‚ Bands (the Fayu is a Band) are comprised of “dozens of people” who are nomads because they have no resources‚ for example seeds. If they had seeds that
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shaping of his thinking. Dingiswayo introduced age regiments where young men were called up to serve for a part of every year‚ men from the same households and villages were put in different regiments‚ their allegiance primarily to the ruler of the chiefdom‚ Dingiswayo‚ and secondarily to their local chiefs. In his early twenties‚ Shaka was conscripted into the Mthethwa army‚ as he was a skilled warrior‚ he ascended the ranks to command his own regiment. This put him in a position to introduce some
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tribe and the leaders who came before Shaka. The history of the Zulu kingdom begins with the reign of Dingiswayo‚ who was chief of the Mthethwa tribe. Dingiswayo became began his reign in 1808. During his term‚ chief Dingiswayo conquered surrounding chiefdoms in hopes to end the brutal fighting between these tribes and bring them everyone under one single government. To meet his goals‚ chief Dingiswayo first had to restructure the way his military operated. He restructured it in a way that brought smaller
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of agriculture where groups of people settled in one area and formed a community. These societies were shaped in a spherical or teardrop hierarchy which presents an equal society that rules through group decisions. (Morillo 25) These bands and chiefdoms eventually fell to the rise of state level hierarchies that were more pyramid formed. According to Morillo‚ warfare was the main driving factor in development of complex societies with the development of elites‚ strong leadership‚ and the role of
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