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| Primary Sector of the Economy |
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| the part of the economy that draws raw materials from the natural environment. EX: Agriculture, ranching, fishing, forestry, and mining. |
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| The ability to achieve desired ends despite resistance from others |
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| an analysis of politics that sees power as concentrated among the rich. |
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| a political system that gives power to the people as a whole |
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| The social institution that distributes power, sets a society’s agenda and makes decisions |
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| A social group of two or more people, related by blood, marriage, or adoption, who usually live together |
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| a family composed of one or two parents and their children |
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| a highly centralized political system that extensively regulates peoples lives |
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| Secondary Sector of the Economy |
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part of the economy that transforms raw materials into manufactured goods.
EX: Refining oil, manufacturing cars |
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| Tertiary Sector of the Economy |
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part of the economy that involves services rather than goods
EX: Clerical, food services, sales, law, healthcare, advertising and teaching |
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| a family composed of parents and children as well as other kin |
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| a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage or adoption |
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| marriage between people of the same social category |
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| marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses |
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| a political system that denies the people participation in government |
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| acts of violence or the threat of such violence used by an individual or group as a political strategy |
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| marriage that unites two partners |
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| a political system in which a single family rules from generation to generation |
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| families live with or near the husband’s family |
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| couples live with or near the wife’s family |
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| marriage between people with the same social characteristics |
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| social patterns characteristic of postindustrial societies |
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| an organized activity that encourages or discourages social change |
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| an object in the natural world collectively defined as sacred |
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| a social institution involving beliefs and practices based on recognizing the sacred |
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| a religious organization that stands apart from the larger society |
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| social patterns resulting from industrialization |
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| social institution through which society provides its members with important |
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| a lack of the reading and writing skills need for everyday living |
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| The study of how health and disease are distributed throughout a society’s population |
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| a type of social organization in which people are closely tied by kinship & tradition |
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| economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and services are privately owned (Private Ownership of Property, Pursuit of Personal Profit, Competition and Consumer Choice) |
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| belief based on conviction rather than on scientific evidence |
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economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and services
are collectively owned (Collective Ownership of Property, Pursuit of Collective Goals, Government Control of the Economy) |
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| legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing |
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| set apart as extraordinary, inspiring awe and reverence |
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| social institution involving beliefs and practices based on recognizing the sacred |
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| social institution that organizes a society’s production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services |
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| occurring as an ordinary part of everyday life |
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| formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers |
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| an approach to healthcare that emphasizes the prevention of illness and takes into account a persons entire physical and social environment. (Treat patients as people, Encourage responsibility NOT dependency, Provide personal treatment) |
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| formal ceremonial behavior |
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| a type of social organization in which people come together only on the basis of individual self-interest. |
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