Globalization,1.3 and 1.4
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- Pre-Industrial Society
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food production is the main economic activity.
--hunters/gatherers who are either nomadic or sedentary
--pastoral herders
--agriculturists: horticulturists:small scale feudalism:large scale - Democracy
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gov't by the people; rule of the majority
a gov't in which the supremem power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly(citizen) or indirectly (representative) with free elections
MAJORITY OF PEOPLE
dates from French and American revolutions of 18th century - Republic
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modern democracy
citizens vote for leaders who make descisions
rule of law--no one-- not even the presidnet--is above the law - totemism
- a religion based on the belief that sacred objects possess supernatural power
- animism
- a religion based on the belief that spirits and ghosts inhabit sacred objects such as trees and rocks
- ethicalist religion
- a religion that focuses more on sets of abstract ideals than on supernatural powers vested in gods, objects, or animals
- power structure
- the distribution of power in social systems.
- attitutes
- positive or negative evaluations of people,objects or situations that often predispose people to feel and behave positively or negatively toward them.
- theism
- the belief in the existence of a god or gods; specifically: belief in the exdistence of the one god viewed as the creative source of man and the world
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monotheism
polytheism -
belief in one god
belief in more than one god - atheism
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a disbelief in the existence of a diety
the doctrine that there is no diety - agnosticism
- non-belief in god/gods. holds position that a diety is unknowable; broadly:one who is not commited to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of god.
- neolocal family
- a kinship arrangement in which married couples start new households
- patrilocal family
- a kinship system in which married couples live near or in the household of the husband's father
- matrilocal family
- a kinship system in which married couples live in or near the household of the wife's mother
- egalitarian family
- a family in which authority is evenly divided between husbands and wives
- patriarchy
- a society or family system organized around dominance by males, especially fathers
- matriarchy
- a society or family system organized around dominance by females
- bilateral descent
- kinship arrangements in which descent is traced through both the mother's and fathers blood relatives
- patrilineal descent
- a kinship system in which descent is traced through fathers and their blood relatives
- matrilineal descent
- a kinship system in which descent is traced through mothers and their blood relatives
- polygyny
- marriage between a man and more than one woman at a time
- polyandry
- marriage between a woman and more than one man at a time
- polygamy
- marriage to more than one spouse at a time
- theocracy
- a state dominated by religious leaders and religious institutions
- autocracy
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dictatorship
a state ruled by a single person - authoritarian power structure
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a power structure in which power is concentrated in the hands of a relative few.
person or people inherit power usually without any limits of a constitution - culture
- the things that make up a peoples entire way of life
- nuclear family
- wife, husband, kdis
- extended families
- many nuclear families together
- technology
- skillz and tools a people use
- diffusion
- the movement of customes or ideas from one place to another
- subculture
- group within a society who share common values and customs
- ethnocentrism
- judgement of other countries based on own standard
- racism
- one racial group is superior to another
- globalization
- describes the increased movement of people, knowledge and ideas, and goods and money across national borders.
- interconnected
- the connection with each other all over the world
- americanization
- overwhelming influcence of american pop culture on societies around the world
- cultural diffusion
- the movement of customs or ideas from one place to another
- pop culture
- the culturals goods (fashion news etc) created for mass consumption
- modernization
- the transformation of "traditional" societies into "Western", industrial societies