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Affluence

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

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Consumption

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Using up material goods neccessary for human survival

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Distribution

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The allocation of goods and services

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Ecology

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

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Econiche

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Plants and animals in ecozone where species rely on for survival

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Economy

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The material-means provisioning process in a cultural system

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Ecotones

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

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Ecozones

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

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Extensive Agriculture

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

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Food Collectors

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Hunt for food

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Food Producers

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Depend on domesticated plants or animals for food

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Ideology

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

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Institutions

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Stable enduring cultural practices that organize social life

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Intensive agriculture

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

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Labour

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Activity linking human social groups to the material world around them

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Market Exchange

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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

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Means of Production

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Things that are used to extract energy from nature

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Mechanized industrial agriculture

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

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Mode of production

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

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Modes of exchange

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Patterns according to which distribution takes place

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Neoclassical Economic Theory

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

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Production

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

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Reciprocity

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Mode of exchange where people exchange goods and/or services

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Redistribution

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Centralized social organization receives contributions and then re-distributes them

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Relations of Production

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

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Scarcity

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

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Subsistence Strategies

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