Kottak prefers the term sociopolitical organization to Morton Fried's term political organization in discussing the regulation or management of interrelations among groups and their representatives. This is because

A. the term sociopolitical is more politically correct.
B. anthropologists and political scientists have an interest in political systems and organization, but they cannot agree on the same terminology.
C. sociopolitical is the term the founders of anthropology used to refer to the regulation or management of interrelations among groups and their representatives.
D. the term political refers only to contemporary Western states.
E. Fried's definition is much less applicable to nonstates, in which it is often difficult to detect any public policy.


Answer: E

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