Vocab

Question 1

Nuclear Family

Answer 1

Direct family (i.e. Mom, dad, siblings)

Question 2

Extended family

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All other family besides nuclear family

Question 3

Patriarchal

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Male dominated

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Matriarchal

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Female dominated

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Egalitarian/equalitarian

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I relating to the thought of everyone is equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities

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Humanities

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The human race; human beings collectively

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Social stratification

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The hierarchical or vertical division of society according to rank, caste, or class

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Autocracy

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One person rules (ie. Dictatorships & monarchies)

Question 9

Absolute monarchy

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Monarchy that gives the king complete and utter control - what he says goes

Question 10

Dictatorship

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A form of autocracy - leadership was forced, usually by military power

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Oligarchy

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Government run by a select few

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Aristocracy

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Type of oligarchy

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Democracy

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Everyone has power (the Greek came the closet to total democracy)

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Republic

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Government run by representatives usually with a constitution

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Constitutionalism

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A government running off of a constitution

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Unitary state

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Centralized government - the federal government has all the power

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Federal system

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Equal distribution of power between the states and federal government

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Confederation

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DeCentralized - Power in the local government

Question 19

Sovereignty

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Supreme power or authority

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Bureaucracy

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System of government where important decisions are made by state officials and nonelected ones

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Anarchy

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No government

Question 22

Authoritarian/totalitarian

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Dictatorship, centralized, and requires the complete submission of the state

Question 23

City-state

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Uniform or homogeneous population and small territory (some ethnicity)

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Kingdom

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Political rulers over many city-states, uniform population

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Empire

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Nonunifrm population (diversity), more territory

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Technology

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A devise created by man to make life easier

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Metallurgy

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The branch of science that focuses on the properties of metals and their production/purification

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Push-Pull factors

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Push- why people leave a place | Pull- why people come/stay

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Emigration

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People leaving somewhere

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Immigration

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People coming somewhere

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Demography

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The study of stats such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease which illustrate he changing structure of human populations

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Epidemic/pandemic

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A giant spread of an infectious disease

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Rural

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Country/farmland/outside of the suburbs/cities

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Urban

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Cities

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Culture

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Values and institutions, our "way of life" vs. material culture (physical culture)

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Cutler relativism

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Judging a culture based on their own standards

Question 37

Ethnocentrism

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Judging a culture based on our own standards

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Theocracy

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A form of government in which priests rule in the name of God/gods

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Secular state

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Non religious government - "separation of church and state"

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Diffusion

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Mixing of things from different cultures (ie. Food, clothes, religion, etc.)

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Fusion

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Combining of cultures into one big culture

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Syncretism

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Combining 2 systems of belief

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Assimilation

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When you adopt the dominant culture of an area

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Animism

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Belief that spirits inhabit things in nature (rocks, trees, storms, etc.)

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Monotheism

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Belief in one god (ie. Christianity, Judaism, Islam)

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Ethicalism

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Code of conduct; religion minus the supernatural and afterlife (ex. Confucianism

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Polytheism

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Belief in many gods (ex. Greek mythology, Hinduism, Norse mythology)

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Foraging society

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When people rely on picking berries and finding food among the natural world

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Agricultural society

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When people rely on farming and planting plants to live

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Pastoral society

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When people rely on raising cattle (and other livestock) to live.

Question 51

Industrial society

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A society relying on the industry/factories to live

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Post-industrial society

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When most people of a society rely on services to go on with life

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Economic systems

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System of producing and exchanging goods and services as well as allocation of resources in a society

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Labor systems

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Distribution of necessary economic tasks