Learning Objectives

  • Understand the motivations that lead to the establishment of government, aka Bobsville.
  • Describe the importance of collective action in Bobsville.
  • On threat of banishment, define the different types of security.
  • Look up the definition of banishment.
  • Explain the concept of power.
  • Describe the relationship of anarchy and power.
  • Go to the opposite extreme and describe the context of hierarchy.
  • Describe how alliances work on Gilligan’s Island, Game of Thrones, or in real life.
  • Identify the factors that go into determining who’s in a group and how the members interact.
  • Complain about how this chapter seems to be totally about defining and describing things.