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50 Cards in this Set
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Name 3 types of natural resources. |
Land, Water, Plants, Animals, and Minerals. |
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Private Property Ownership |
People who buy and sell land and many other things |
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Why was Andrew Jackson significant? |
He called for the removal of all eastern Native American groups to "permanent" settlements. |
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Domestic Mode of Production |
Family or kinship mode of production. Labor consisted of people gathering food and producing shelter for themselves and their kin. |
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Name the 3 Modes of Distribution |
By Land, Air, or Sea. |
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Kula Ring Ceremony is what type of distribution? |
Sea distribution |
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Bullet Point the 3 types of advantages |
Wealth/Economics, Power, and Prestige |
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Name 3 Types of Societies |
Egalitarian, Rank, and Class |
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Class Society |
Unequal distribution in all three of the advantages. |
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Open Class System |
There is a possibility of moving from one class to another. |
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Give an example of a Caste System |
India, Brahmans and Untouchables |
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Who are the Untouchables and Brahmans? |
Untouchables- Bottom of the hierarchy, consists of subcasts such as Camars and Bhangis. Brahmans- Top of the hierarchy, generally cleaner work such as priests. |
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Slaves |
A class of people who do not own their own labor or products. |
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Race is what kind of construct? |
A subpopulation or variety of species that differ somewhat in gene frequencies from other varieties of species. |
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Eugenics |
Reduced rates of sexual reproduction and sterilization of people with less desirable traits. |
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Ethnicity |
A group of people emphasizing common origins, language, history, and religion. |
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Gender Roles |
Roles that are culturally assigned to genders. |
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Sexual Dimorphism |
A marked difference in size and appearance between males and females of a species. |
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Expendability Theory |
The idea that men will do more dangerous work in a society because the loss of a man is not a disadvantage reproductively as a loss of a woman. |
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Primary Substisence |
Food getting activities: Hunting, Gathering, Fishing, Herding, and Agriculture. |
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List one reason why men lead in politics. |
War, Weaponry, Traveling the outside world. |
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Gender Stratification |
Unequal to the three advantages by gender. |
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List one reason that accounts for a women's high or low status. |
Depends on the society they live in. |
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Do men show more aggressiveness? |
Yes |
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What is the Trobriand islanders view on premarital sex? |
They approve and encouraged premarital sex, seeing it is important for preparation for marriage. |
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What is the Night of Saturnalia? |
Some nights among the people of Papago, homosexual tendencies were allowed to be expressed. |
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Marriage |
A socially approved sexual and economic union, usually between a male and a female. |
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List 1 approach that explains why marriage is universal |
Gender Division of Labor, Prolonged Infant Dependency, Sexual Competition. |
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Bride Price |
A substantial gift of goods or money given to the bride's kin by the groom or his kin before the marriage. |
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Where does Bride Price occur? |
Occurs in Africa, Oceania, and the Philippines |
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Bride Service |
Work performed by the groom for his bride's family for a variable amount of time before the marriage. |
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Where is the Incest Taboo found? |
Incan and Hawaiian cultures. Best example is Cleopatra of Egypt. |
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List 1 theory that explains Incest Taboo. |
Childhood-familiarity Theory, Family Disruption Theory, and Inbreeding Theory |
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Exogamy |
To marry someone outside of a certain factor. |
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Levirate |
Man will marry the wife of his dead brother. |
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Sororate |
Woman will marry the husband of her dead sister. |
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Palygyny |
1 Man marries many women. |
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Sororal Palygyny |
Sisters marry the same man. |
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Fraternal Polyandry |
Brothers marry the same woman. |
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Bullet point the 3 Family Forms |
Matrifocal Nuclear Extended |
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Where do we learn culture first? |
We learn culture from our parents, schools, and other teachings. |
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What are some reasons to explain extended family household? |
The newlyweds are put into a household with other family rather than moving into their own residence. |
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Strength Theory |
Idea that males possess greater strength and a superior capacity to mobilize their strength in quick bursts of energy. |
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One-Drop Rule |
A principle stating that if you had even one ancestor of African descent, you would be considered African American (This applies to other races). |
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Endogamy |
To marry someone within a certain factor. |
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Dowry Death burnings were caused by who? |
these were caused by husbands and in-laws in order to get an increased dowry (transfer of property). |
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Inbreeding |
To breed from family or even animals. |
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Matrifocal Household |
This is when there is only the mother to watch over the house and the children. |
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Division of labor is based on what? |
It is based on the four theories: Compatibility with Childcare Economy of Effort Expendability |
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Give an example of an indirect form of forced labor. |
Taxes |