culture vocab
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- consumers
- people that buy and use the goods and services
- cultural diffusion
- movement of customs and ideas
- social structure
- way of organizing people into smaller groups
- producers
- owners and workers
- culture
- the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs or customs
- government
- system that sets up and enforces a society's laws and institutions
- ethics
- standards of accepted behavior
- services
- what producers perform for other people
- dictator
- government leader who had almost total power over an entire country
- monarchy
- type of government where king or queen is the ruler
- acculuration
- process of accepting, borrowing, and exchanging ideas
- agriculture
- farming
- extended family
- includes several generations
- economy
- system for producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services
- constitutions
- sets of laws that define and limit a government's powers
- direct democracy
- everyone participated in the day to day affairs of the group
- technology
- tools and the skills people need to use them
- communism
- government owns all basic and nonbasic industries
- cultural traits
- a particular group's individual skills, customs, and ways of doing things
- socialism
- government owns most basic industries
- goods
- what producers make
- cultural landscape
- changes to a culture's environment and the technology used to change it
- nuclear family
- mother, father, and their children
- capitalism
- most basic and non basic businesses are privately owned
- representative democracy
- citizens elect representatives to run the country's affairs