Social Studies Concepts and Definitions

A set of vocabulary flashcards covering key social studies, history, and economics terms defined in the lecture notes.

Agricultural production

The cultivation of land, crops, and animals

Architecture

The art or science of designing or building structures

Belief systems

Placing trust and basing behavior on established habits

Capitalism

Economic system characterized by private ownership, and operated for profit

Commerce

Interchange of commodities on a large scale

Communism

Economic system in which the government owns/controls all means of production/distribution with no privately owned

Demography

Study of human population, size, trends

Disease

A harmful development in a living body, or plant body

Economic classes

Dividing society based on levels of personal wealth

Empire

Nations or people ruled by a government that is not their own

Ethnic constructs

Judgements of a person's social group based on preconceived ideas

Family

A group of people sharing common ancestry; nuclear or extended

Forms of Governance

A particular way of controlling or exercising authority

Gender roles and relations

Constructed characteristics of what a man or woman can do, not based on biology

Global

Anything relating to the entire world

Ideologies

Intersecting a systematic study or manner of a human life

Industrialization

An economy for the purpose of manufacturing on large scale using machines

Kingship

Being extremely related to others through DNA, as in several extended families