UCSP

• culturally defined relationships between individuals

  
  

  kinship
• what are the 3 types of kinship?
• formed by several families living together by family ties, common descendants, friendships, affiliations and members usually have common interest of enemies

  band
• acephalous poitical system


  tribe
• group without a distinct leader

  tribe
• formal leadership exists and authority rests solely on the members of a a select family

  chiefdom
• 2 types of chiefdom

  simple and complex chiefdom
• ruled by a single family

  simple chiefdom
• ruled by a single paramount chief

  complex chiefdom
• groups of people that shared a common history, language, traditions, customs, habits, and ethnicity

  nation
• moral and ethical concept that bestows one who possesses power the right to exercise such power since such is perceived to be justified and proper

  legitimacy
• the power to make binding decisions and issue commands

  authority
• necessary for a leader


  to possess authority
• 3 types of authority 


  traditional authority, charismatic authority, and rational-legal authority
• derived from well established customs, habits, and social structures


  traditional authority
• emanates from charisma of the individual

  charismatic authority
• comes from formal rules promulgated by the state through its fundamental and implementing laws

  rational-legal authority
• also known as scars


  resources
• studies how to allocate scars

  economics
• how people choose to use their resources through proper allocation

  economics
• the agencies devoted to collecting economic data and commisioned with the job of supplying a good service impacts to the economy of country

  economic institutions
• 3 types of economic institutions

  government agencies, government-owned financial institutions, and government-regulated market institutions
• economic institutions which are not owned or regulated by the local government

  non-state institutions
• company that is authorized by a state to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law for certain purposes

  corporations
• autonomous association of person united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural aspirations

  cooperatives
• entities by formal political agreements between their members who have the status of international treaties


  international organizations
• advocates of principle causes ideas and values such as human rights and environment

  transnational advocacy group
• agencies that were formed as a response for war damage and industrial decline

  development groups
• organization based on membership of employees in various traders

  trade unions
• occupation and profession whose focus is representation of its members at the workplace and in the wider society

  trade unions
• world's biggest religion


  christianity
• uses bible as religious scripture

  christianity
• rejected the practices of Christianity

  denomination and sect
• larger number compared to sect

  denomination
• smaller version of denomination

  sect
• punished themselves to remind them how Christ suffered and sacrificed

  opusdei
• second most popular religion in the world

  islam
• "quaran" as a religious scripture

  islam
• believes that followers will get to paradise through practicing of 5 pillars

  islam
• 5 pillars of islam

  sawm, zakat, shahada, salaah, hajj