Final Flashcards
The exchange of goods and services of roughly equal value between two trading partners
Reciprocity
Describe three units of production that transform resources into usable forms
Household: most basic
Small business: individually owned and operated
Corporation: commercial operation
Describe the Kula Ring and the use of reciprocity
The Trobriand Islanders involving the use of white shell necklaces and red shell bracelets
Goods and services are given to a central authority and reallocated to the people according to new pattern
Redistribution
Describe the five strategies for getting good that are used by various societies
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
Egalitarian political system that is strictly blood related
Band societies
Larger egalitarian with local leadership
Tribal Societies
Centralized leadership of local communities
Chiefdoms
Complex hierarchy system if governing based on residence
State Systems
Name three informal means of social control
Supernatural belief systems
Age organization
Socialization
Name three formal means to maintain social order
War
Codified law and court
Oaths and ordeals
The central assumptions, concepts, and premises more or less shared by member of a culture or subculture
Worldview
What cross cultural misunderstanding involving worldview is illustrated in Acts 14:8-18 concerning the ministry of apostles in Lystra?
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.
A set of beliefs in supernatural being and forces directed at helping people make sense of the world and solve important problems
Religion
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
Art