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In Conjunction with Cultural Anthropology - Touro Institute

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Matching Exercise - Chapter 12: The Economic System<br />

1. economics<br />

2. commodities<br />

3. ownership<br />

4. unskilled laborers<br />

5. pink-collar occupations<br />

6. blue-collar workers<br />

7. white-collar occupations<br />

8. professionals<br />

9. reciprocity<br />

10. generalized reciprocity<br />

11. redistribution<br />

12. bigmanship<br />

13. chief<br />

14. market<br />

15. barter<br />

16. money<br />

17. general-purpose money<br />

18. consumption<br />

19. subsistence economy<br />

20. subsistence income<br />

21. status income<br />

22. feminization of poverty<br />

23. conspicuous consumption<br />

24. corporation<br />

25. consumer market<br />

26. means of production<br />

a. a system of distribution for goods and services based primarily on the use of<br />

established locations for the exchange<br />

b. final use by a society of goods and services<br />

c. economic entrepreneurship by persons in horticulture societies who encourage<br />

economic production and gift giving in their communities<br />

d. universal medium of exchange used to buy and sell any item<br />

e. service occupations that are largely held by women<br />

f. the acquisition and use of a surplus of goods as a way of competitively demonstrating<br />

one's success and prestige<br />

g. form of exchange of goods by trading<br />

h. gift giving <strong>with</strong> no expectation of immediate exchange<br />

i. the tools and resources necessary for the creation of commodities and the locations in<br />

which they are used<br />

j. economy in which people consume most of what they produce<br />

k. an economic system in which basic needs of consumers are met by the system of<br />

production, and competition for sales may focus on non-essentials<br />

l. goods produced over and above subsistence needs<br />

m. goods, services, and intangible items that are determined to be useful or valuable in a<br />

particular culture<br />

n. association of employers and employees that is legally entitled to act as a single<br />

person to produce goods or provide services<br />

o. self-employed, college-educated service providers<br />

p. presiding redistributive and political official in a nonstate society whose legal<br />

authority extends in at least some areas over members of families other than his or her<br />

own<br />

q. low-paid workers, including part-time or seasonal workers, who are usually paid by<br />

the hour or for the quantity of goods they produce<br />

r. sharing of surpluses <strong>with</strong> the understanding that the party receiving the gift will<br />

respond in kind in the future

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