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nuclear family
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mom, dad, kids
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extended family
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other family members
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joint family
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then daughter marries and joins her husbands family
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monogamous
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one partner
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polygamous
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many partners
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matriarchal
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led by mother
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patriarchal
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led by father
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capitalism
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the means of production & distribution are primarily owned for profit
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socialism
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partial or almost complete government control and ownership off the economic system
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communism
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total government control of all social, cultural, and economic activities by a communist party. it is the purest form of socialism.
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theory of communism
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everything that happens in this world is caused by money
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karl marx
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wrote the theory of communism, and says there are 2 types of people
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proletariat
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poor, taken advantage of
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burgeoisie
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big bosses, rich
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motto of communism
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to each according to ability, to each according to need
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capitalism
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cares more about the individual
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capitalism
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which has better products
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communism
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works best in a young country
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assimilation
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adding, absorbing another culture
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ethnocentric
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judging another culture by your standards
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xenophobia
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fear of strangers
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stereotype
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judging a group as a whole
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anarchy
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nobody has a say, no government, every man for himself
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autocracy
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one prson has power
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dictatorship
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led by military
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oligarchy
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led by a few people
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monarchy
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led by royalty
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direct democracy
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everybody has a say
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representative democracy
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elect people to represent us, then they vote in congress (republic)
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republic
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representative democracy
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theocracy
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government by religion
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plutocracy
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led by the rich and wealthy
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aristocracy
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government by the best
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constitutional monarchy
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constitutional parliament, but led by king or queen
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judaism
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the 1st religion with only one God, very old
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torah
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books of judaism
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islam
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founded by muhammad
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mecca
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holy place of muslims
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koran
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muslim book
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hinduism
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religion from india
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baghavad gita
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the holy hindu book
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hinduism
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god is braman, and your soul has gone through many lives and duties, reincarnation, cows are sacred
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buddhism
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follow gaultama, who was a prince and was shown sadnes hen enlightened.
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nirvana
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when you have overcome all wants, you have reached this, happiness
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montreal protocol
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said countries must stop making CFC's
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kyoto protocol
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in 1997, 160 countries got together and 55 agreed to cut their level of emissions by 5%
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global warming
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caused by burning coal, gas, hits polar latitudes
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dependency theory
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says worldwide economic pattern established by industrial revolution sitll persists today
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lifeboat ethics
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wabout hether or not the wealthy should rescue the "drowning" poor
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gross domestic product
GDP |
total output of goods and services a country produces for home use divided by the country's population.
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purchasing power parity
PPP |
applies standardized dollar price weights to the quantities of final goods and services provided in a given economy
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human development index
HDI |
a scale that considers attributes of quality of life
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agricultural revolution
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the domestication of plants and animals, people grew their own, irrigation
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industrial revolution
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around 1700, an explosion of technology in britain, many innovations
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