Graded A+
1. Property Rights and obligations to things, enforceable by custom, norm, or law.
-not the things themselves
-not always absolute, private
-bundle of rights
2. Tenure The system of rules defining the allocation of property e.g. law, custom
-"tenure rights"
3. Sovereignty - Supreme political authority in a geographic region or over a group of
people.
-The ultimate authority to grant and take property.
4. Divisibility Ditterent/competing sovereigns can claim sovereignty over ditterent
things in the same place or among the same people
5. Private property INDIVIDUAL right to exclude.
6. State property INSTITUTIONAL right to exclude.
7. Common Community member right to not be excluded from accessing/using the
proper- ty property.
8. Assimilation Incorporation into mainstream social, economic, & political institutions &
civic life—not necessarily cultural incorporation
9. Acculturation Cultural incorporation through adoption of dominant cultural values and
forms (including language)
10. First rights Natural right to one's own body justifies a first right to private property
created by mixing one's sweat with soil.
11. Usufruct rights Right, most likely assigned by a property owner, for specific people to
use a par- ticular aspect of property/resource during a particular time of
year at a particular place.
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12. Formal Based on laws or actions of the state.
property
rights (de
jure) Property rights not encoded in law.
13. Informal
proper- ty
rights (de fac-
to)
14. Property as social Property is a man-made institution which creates and maintains
certain relation-
process ships between people and people and things.
15. Lochian -Landscape can be divided up
concept
of private proper- - Land is allocated to one specific specialized use.
ty -Mechanized landscape.
i.e. Homestead Act
16. Merchant's -Identity
key themes -Power and justice
-Reproduction
-Sustainability
17. Power Opportunity existing within a social relationship which permits one to
carry out one's own will
-even against resistance
-and regardless of the basis on which this opportunity rests (Max
Weber)
18. Ideologic A system of ideas and stereotypes that poses a social and moral
al racism hierarchy based on perceived biological ditterences.
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