The type of seigneurial ownership characteristic of medieval Europe is called ________ownership
a. patrimonial
b. lineage
c. prebendal
d. familial
Question 2Sanderson and Alderson suggest that the evolution of modes of property ownership is closely associated with the evolution of modes of resource distribution. Therefore
a. primitive communism should be associated with pure redistribution
b. paramount ownership should be associated with partial redistribution
c. seigneurial ownership should be associated with reciprocity
d. lineage ownership should be associated with surplus expropriation
Question 3Sanderson and Alderson suggest that a distinction must be made between expropriation and partial redistribution because
a. landlords have considerably greater power than chiefs
b. the flow of goods between peasants and lords is substantially more unequal than the flow of valuables between chiefs and commoners
c. both of these
d. neither of these
Question 4Sanderson and Alderson argues that the major evolutionary trend in the ownership of productive resources in precapitalist societies is in the direction of
a. increasing control over productive resources by a smaller and smaller fraction of the population
b. increasing willingness of elite groups to share in the ownership of resources with other groups
c. increasing control over productive resources by a middle class
d. little change in ownership patterns until the advent of agrarian societies
Question 5Under the system that Sanderson and Alderson call seigneurial ownership
a. land is owned and cultivated communally by villagers
b. land is owned or controlled by a class of landlords who impose severe
restrictions on those who use it
c. land is owned privately by agricultural capitalists who use it in order to make
a profit
d. land is not a significant resource to be owned by anyone
Question 6Control theory emphasizes the strong attachments of individuals to others who would disapprove of criminal actions.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Question 7The leading competitors to Mark Cohen's theory of the origins of agriculture
a. are general theories of the worldwide transition to agriculture
b. stress the role of the food crisis in prehistory
c. emphasize the role of climate change or resource stress
d. stress the improvement in standards of living that followed the Neolithic Revolution
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