Marriage Exchange and Economic Systems Political Organization Lanuage Culture
100
Marriage.
Love, companionship, economics, psychological security, social position, prestige, and to have a home and children are reasons for _______.
100
Reciprocity
An exchange between two individuals or groups with the aim of helping someone in need, creating or maintaining a relationship, or obtaining objects for oneself.
100
Egalitarian
Equal access to rewards, productive resources are open to all, influence based on personal qualities, prestige based on personal achievements.
100
Rapid fading
Speech sounds can be heard only while they are being emitted, after that they are irrelevant.
100
Characteristics
Learned, shared, symbolic, universal, integrated, non-instinctive, adaptive are what of culture?
200
Dowry
A substantial transfer of goods or money from the bride's family to the bride, the groom, or the groom's family.
200
Generalized Reciprocity
Those who give do not expect the recipient to make a return at any definite time.
200
Ranked
Access to rewards limited by kinship, productive resources held in common by kin group. Wealth differences between members of kin group.
200
Interchangeability
The speaker can receive and broadcast the same signal.
200
National culture
Which level of culture is defined: Refers to experiences, beliefs, and learned behavior patterns, and values shared by citizens of the same nation.
300
Bride Service
Requires groom to work for his bride's family, sometimes before the marriage is finalized, sometimes afterwards.
300
Negative Reciprocity
Both parties hope to gain all that they can from the exchange while giving as little as possible.
300
Bands (Simple)
Local, economically and self-sufficient residence group, single extended family, family head with leadership based on influence
300
Total feedback
This means that the speaker can hear themselves speak and can monitor their language performance as they go.
300
Diffusion
Referred to as "borrowing" different aspects of a culture.
400
Brideprice
Gift of money or goods given to the bride's kin by the groom and his kin.
400
Market
Products or objects are sold for money, which in turn is used to purchase other products, with the goal of obtaining money.
400
Chiefdoms
Several economically interdependent residence groups, up to 30,000 residents, centralized leadership with a hereditary chief that has full formal authority.
400
Specialization
This means that the organs used for producing speech are specially adapted to that task.
400
Acculturation
Referred to as "forced borrowing" different aspects of certain cultures.
500
Ambilocal.
Couples shift back and forth between husband's and wife's groups.
500
Redistribution
Members of an organized group contribute resources to a common authority, which distributes the resources to the rest of the society.
500
State
Centralized leadership with full formal authority supported by a bureaucracy.
500
Semanticity
This means that specific signals can be matched with specific meanings.
500
Adaptive
Hunting and gathering, horticultural, pastoralists, agricultural, industrial are referred to as _______ strategies.






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