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| ethics | the standards or code of moral behavior |
| culture | ways of life shared by a group of people |
| technology | tools and skills and how they are used |
| cultural landscape | landscape that has been changed by humans and reflects their culture |
| agriculture | growing of crops and raising of livestock |
| social structure | the ways in which people are organized into smaller groups |
| nuclear family | a family unit that includes a mom, dad, and their children |
| extended family | a family unit that includes parents,children, and other relatives |
| economy | a system of producing, distributing, consuming, and owning goods, services, and wealth |
| producer | a person who makes products that are used by other people |
| consumer | a person who buys goods and services |
| services | work done or duties performed for other people |
| capitalism | an economic system in which people and privately owned companies own both basic and nonbasic businesses and industries |
| socialism | an economic system in which the government owns most basic industries |
| communism | property and businesses are owned by the governemnt |
| government | the system that establishes and enforces the laws |
| direct democracy | a system of governemnt in which the people participate directly in decision making |
| monarchy | a system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch-king or queen-who inherits the power by birth |
| constitution | a plan of government that defines and limits the powers of government |
| representative democracy | a system of government in which the people elect representatives to run the government |
| dictator | a ruler who has complet power over a country |
| cultural diffusion | the movement of customs and ideas from one culture to antoher |
| acculturation | the process of accepting, borrowing, and exchanging ideas and traits among cultures |
