According to Sanderson, the most tyrannical and despotic of all preindustrial societies are
a. simple horticulturalists
b. pastoralists
c. intensive horticulturalists
d. hunter-gatherers
e. agrarian societies
Question 2The most basic trend in the evolution of political organization is increasing
a. democracy
b. concentration of power in a few hands and use of that power for self interested purposes
c. altruism on the part of political leaders
d. separation of politics from economic life
Question 3According to Sanderson and Alderson, the emergence of stratification
a. is preceded in time by the production of an economic surplus
b. is unrelated to the production of an economic surplus
c. occurs first and is then followed by the production and unequal distribution of an economic surplus
d. none of the above
Question 4Social mobility in agrarian societies was
a. basically nonexistent
b. occasionally upward but mainly downward
c. occasionally downward but mainly upward
d. almost always upward
Question 5The political-economic elite in agrarian societies generally comprises _______ of the population and receives _______ of the total wealth
a. 25; less than half
b. 35; almost 100
c. 1-2; half or more
d. 50; only 1-2
Question 6The retainer class in agrarian societies
a. carried out the routine work necessary for getting the economic surplus into the hands of the ruler and governing classes
b. was composed of persons of widely varying privilege and social status
c. tended, on average, to share to a significant extent in the benefits of the wealth controlled by their employers
d. all of these
Question 7Sanderson and Alderson favor
a. the surplus theory
b. the scarcity theory
c. a combination of the scarcity and the surplus theory
d. neither the surplus nor the scarcity theory
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