UNIT 2 & 3 TEST Flashcards
What is population density?
The amount of people per square mile
What’s the different between Emigration and Immigration?
Emigration = exit a country Immigration = come into country
What are some factors that cause people to move to the city
Natural resources
What are the elements of culture?
Language Arts Technology Relationships Institutions Religion
What are the two types of institutions?
Formal and informal
What’s culture?
Knowledge of ideals, beliefs, and values that are together in a society and are passed down
What are the five major religions?
Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam
What is a dialect?
A way to reflect speech patterns related to class, region, or other cultural changes.
What occurs when a society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation?
Acculturation
What is it called when you spread ideas, innovations, or patterns of behavior?
Diffusion
What is the site of innovation where basic ideas, materials, and tech diffuse to many cultures.
Cultural hearth
A group that shares a geographic region, a sense or identity, and culture is what.
A society
What are values and norms?
Values: abstract ideas about good and bad; right or wrong
Norms: social rules and guidelines
Refers to a group that shares a language, customs, or common heritage
Ethnic group
What is the transmission of culture from one generation to the next
Enculturation
What does a belief system include? (Most important contributing factor of culture)
Religion, dress, food, the arts
Type of relationships include….
Family (group of people related by blood or adoption) Nuclear family Extended family Blended family Single-parent family
What is patriarchal and matriarchal?
Pat- male hold dominance over family
Mat- females hold dominance over families
A structure of social order governing the behavior of a set of individuals in a society
Institutions
Culture is a blueprint for living because….
It:
- is determined by how you are brought up
- helps you know what’s acceptable in your society
- provides what you’re supposed to eat and what you can’t
- etc.
What are the levels of economic activity in order?
Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quincary
What is the oldest form of government?
Monarchy
Describe the following forms of government:
- democracy
- single party state
- theocracy
- oligarchy
- monarchy
- dictatorship
- presidential and parliamentary democracy
Democracy- 4 the people by the people
Single- only a ruling party governs. They make a political elite.
Theocracy- headed by religious leaders
Oligarchy - small group of people rule
Monarchy - one family rules the country (king, queen, etc)
Dictatorship- one person controls country through force or power. Likes military groups.
Pres. democ- voters can choose president to lead the government and individuals have a say
Parliament - votes elect lawmakers to choose who’s in parliament
Explain the Systems of governments.
Federalism: power split between the higher and lower governments. Higher has control over citizens as a whole, lower has control over individuals
Unitary: power is mainly held with the central government
Confederate: lower glove is stronger than higher gov making only a central government.
