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A 6 page address of three specific questions regarding what factors influence social structure and organization. This paper addresses city states, territorial states, kinship and residence, ecological factors and economic factors that are important in social organization. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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represents a dichotomy or a continuum? Which of the seven societies (including the Yoruba) that we have studied do you think best fit the model and which do not?
Explain the basis for your decision. The distinction that exists between city states and
territorial states is more a continuum than a dichotomy. Territorial states, after all, often encompass city states in terms of their societal organization. There is no one organizational
development that characterizes all societies at all periods of time. There are distinct differences in various societal components that could be interpreted as a dichotomy but in fact these
distinctions form a continuum. Consider, for example, Old Kingdom Egypt. Small agricultural villages related to a central state authority yet they were in many ways autonomous. The
Yoruba people of Africa also had a larger city state. That city state, however, existed within the larger territorial state just as was the case in Egypt. This
evidences a continuum of change, not a rigid and unchanging dichotomy. This continuum of change relates to many factors, one of
which is the changes which occurred over time in agriculture. Additional examples of how city states related to territorial states abound.
William Anderson, for example, reports that the social structure of the Cherokee people of the Americas was based on loosely interrelated bands, bands delineated by factors such as geography,
dialectical distinctions in language, interactions between the various bands of Cherokees and their respective neighbors, and economic self interest. These relationships have changed somewhat over time, however. Although
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