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| Nature selects from the existing individuals the ones best suited for survival under particular conditions. Eventually, this type of individual has the highest reproduction rate, and over a long period of time that fact leads to changes in the species. |
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| Sets of customs, laws, and norms that influence, enable, or constrain human behavior. |
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| The way that human beings produce goods and services, based on the knowledge of how to do things, the available skills of the labor force or workers, the amount of production by each type of present equipment, and the quality of land an natural resources available. |
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| The process through which a society provisions itself with the goods and services that it needs to survive and grow. |
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| Sets of relations between people doing economic activities and the ways that people interact in the economy. |
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| Family based collective societies, where everyone worked together and consumed the product. |
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| All the non-economic ways that people interact, such as the political process, the family, or religious organizations. |
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| A more or less coherent system of ideas about how society works and how we should behave within a given society. |
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| What are the 4 features society? What were they in early society? |
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Technology - Earliest stone tools, hunting/gathering.
Economic Institutions - Common ownership by extended family.
Social Institutions - Group consensus.
Ideology - Community togetherness and equality. |
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| The amount of output produced by each input. |
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| Government by the entire population usually through elected representatives. |
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| Differential treatment of people based on prejudices or myths about their gender. |
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| Differential treatment of people based on prejudices or myths about differences in physical characteristics or ethnicity. |
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