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Anthropology
Undergraduate 4
10/20/2006

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study of life in cities
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urban anthropology
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there are all connected, change one thing and everything changes
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systematic
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what you can accept, not first thought of. you can tell how important a norm is how people react when broken.
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acceptable behavior
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idea that one's own culture is better than other cultures
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ethnocentrism
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under its own power
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autonomous
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state emerged to control irrigation
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hydraulic theory
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fairness in weights and measure
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trade
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the ability to get someone to do your will
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social power
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trust cooperation and compromise drive through social contact
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social capital
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economy not under government control
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informal economy
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economic practices taht are illegal
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illegal economy
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legal practices not under government control
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unreported economy
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inducement to do something contrary to accepted practices
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bribery
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payment of a percentage wtih no added value
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kickback
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charging something normally done for free
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rent seeking economy
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inducement by force or threat of frce
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extortion
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payment to hasten (quicken) a legal practice
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facilitation payments
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trait emerges within the culture
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invention
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trait comes from another culture
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diffusion
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trait comes from another culture
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diffusion
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one culture becomes signigantly like another culture; comes from attraction rather than force
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acculturation
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one culture becomes completely like another culture
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assimilation
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deliberately trying to end a culture, not the people
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ethnocide
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traits from 2 or more cultures come together to make a new trait
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syncretism
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elite set of cultural standard for the non-elites
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cultural hegamony
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ethnic cleansing, forcibly moving people away, they k ick out of the group that does not belong
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population transfer
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display of wealth to maintain status. helps reaffirm your status, important for poor poeple because it reconfirms how they are doing in society
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conspicious consumption
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attempt to kill entire people
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genocide
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interactiving (reality) is a good thing
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cultural pluralism
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emphasizes cultural groups
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multiculturalism
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emphaseized ethnic groups and other subcultures
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diversity
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system of leaderships
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administrative hierarchies
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system of organization where information flows up and decision flow down; courts/judges
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bureacracy
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help the state maintain control
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support system
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civilization, urban center, bureacracy, administrative hierarchies
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characteristics of a city
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surplus of food and everything, inequality
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industrial/industrialized agriculture
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how the task of society is dvide up. based on sex/age
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complex division of labor
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P.O.V. from within the culture
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ethic
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expectation of how the world works
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mechanicacl power
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specialization, interests, movies
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mechanistic world view
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working class
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proletarist
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people who do not contribute, beggers, drug dealeres
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lumperproletarist
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relative social position
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status
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layers of society
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stratification
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everyone has the same basic access to resources power and prestige
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egalitarian
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groups have differiantial access to resources power and prestige
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stratified society
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groups have differiantial access to resources power and prestige
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stratified society
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group of people who more or less the same resources and the same behavior
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socioeconomic class
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class system with mobility
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open class system
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closed clascs system, class whichone is born into and must remain for one's life
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caste
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categorization of people based on perceived physical differences
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social race
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seperate aesthetics, seperate morality, slang/jargon/argot, seperate channels of communication, gratification of needs
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subculture norms of solidarity
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an interbreeding population
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biological race
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categorization of people based on perceived physical differences
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social race
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race is an important identifier
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racial stratification
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working class
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proletarist
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