Final Flashcards

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The exchange of goods and services of roughly equal value between two trading partners

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Reciprocity

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Describe three units of production that transform resources into usable forms

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Household: most basic

Small business: individually owned and operated

Corporation: commercial operation

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Describe the Kula Ring and the use of reciprocity

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The Trobriand Islanders involving the use of white shell necklaces and red shell bracelets

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Goods and services are given to a central authority and reallocated to the people according to new pattern

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Redistribution

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Describe the five strategies for getting good that are used by various societies

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Food collection: collecting vegetation and hunting

Horticulture: plant cultivation with small plots of land

Pastoralism: keeping domesticated animals

Agriculture: horticulture using mechanic power with form of irrigation

Industrialization: production of food through complex machinery

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5
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Egalitarian political system that is strictly blood related

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Band societies

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Larger egalitarian with local leadership

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Tribal Societies

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7
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Centralized leadership of local communities

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Chiefdoms

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Complex hierarchy system if governing based on residence

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State Systems

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9
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Name three informal means of social control

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Supernatural belief systems
Age organization
Socialization

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Name three formal means to maintain social order

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War
Codified law and court
Oaths and ordeals

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The central assumptions, concepts, and premises more or less shared by member of a culture or subculture

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Worldview

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What cross cultural misunderstanding involving worldview is illustrated in Acts 14:8-18 concerning the ministry of apostles in Lystra?

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The apostles performed miracles through God at Lystra, but the people believed it was Zeus and Hernes. Christianity must penetrate the surface so that’s worldview transformation can take place.

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13
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A set of beliefs in supernatural being and forces directed at helping people make sense of the world and solve important problems

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Religion

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The process and products of applying certain skills to any activity that transforms matter, sound, or motion into a form that is deemed aesthetically meaningful to people in a society

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Art

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15
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What are four ways that art may function within a society

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Emotional gratification
Social integration
Social control
Preserving or challenging the status quo

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Culture pass through developmental stages

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Evolutionism

17
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Culture change because of cultural borrowing

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Diffusionism

18
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Culture strive to meet the needs of the individual or society

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Functionalism

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Cultures are shaped by pre programmed codes in the mind

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French Structarlism

20
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A new combination of existing cultural features

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Invention

21
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A change brought about by the recombination of already existing items within a culture

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Innovation

22
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A specific form of cultural diffusion in which and subordinate culture adopts many of the cultural traits of a more powerful culture

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Acculturation