Why is the term sociopolitical organization preferred over Morton Fried's term political organization in discussing the regulation or management of interrelations among groups and their representatives?

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: fried's definition is much less applicable to non states, where it often is difficult to detect any "public policy"
d: sociopolitical is the term that the founders of anthropology used to refer to the regulation or management of interrelations among groups and their representatives
e: the term political refers only to contemporary Western States


Ans: c: fried's definition is much less applicable to non states, where it often is difficult to detect any "public policy"

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