Chapter 7

Question 1

Affluence

Answer 1

Having more than enough of whatever is required to satisfy consumption needs

Question 2

Consumption

Answer 2

Using up material goods neccessary for human survival

Question 3

Distribution

Answer 3

The allocation of goods and services

Question 4

Ecology

Answer 4

The study of ways living species relate to each other and their natural environment

Question 5

Econiche

Answer 5

Plants and animals in ecozone where species rely on for survival

Question 6

Economy

Answer 6

The material-means provisioning process in a cultural system

Question 7

Ecotones

Answer 7

Transition area between 2 different ecozones that display characteristics of both ecozones

Question 8

Ecozones

Answer 8

The particular mixture of plan and animal species occupying the region of the earth

Question 9

Extensive Agriculture

Answer 9

Form of cultivation that depends on pretty much destroying the ground hah

Question 10

Food Collectors

Answer 10

Hunt for food

Question 11

Food Producers

Answer 11

Depend on domesticated plants or animals for food

Question 12

Ideology

Answer 12

Explain to people who they are and justify the kinds of lives they lead

Question 13

Institutions

Answer 13

Stable enduring cultural practices that organize social life

Question 14

Intensive agriculture

Answer 14

Form of cultivation to bring more land under cultivation at one time

Question 15

Labour

Answer 15

Activity linking human social groups to the material world around them

Question 16

Market Exchange

Answer 16

Where the exchange of goods is calculated in terms of a multi-purpose medium of exchange and standard of value and carried on by means of a supply-demand-price mechanisms

Question 17

Means of Production

Answer 17

Things that are used to extract energy from nature

Question 18

Mechanized industrial agriculture

Answer 18

Large scale farming that’s highly dependent on industrial methods of technology and production

Question 19

Mode of production

Answer 19

Specific, historically occurring set of relations through which labour is deployed to wrest energy from nature by means of tools etc.

Question 20

Modes of exchange

Answer 20

Patterns according to which distribution takes place

Question 21

Neoclassical Economic Theory

Answer 21

Formal attempt to explain the workings of capitalist enterprise, with particular attention to distribution

Question 22

Production

Answer 22

Transformation of nature’s raw materials into a form suitable for human use

Question 23

Reciprocity

Answer 23

Mode of exchange where people exchange goods and/or services

Question 24

Redistribution

Answer 24

Centralized social organization receives contributions and then re-distributes them

Question 25

Relations of Production

Answer 25

Links the people who use a given means of production within a particular mode of production

Question 26

Scarcity

Answer 26

Assumption that resources will never be plentiful enough for people to obtain all the goods or services they desire

Question 27

Subsistence Strategies

Answer 27

Patterns of production, distribution, and consumption that members of a society employ to ensure the satisfaction of their basic material survival needs