ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Economic System, Neoliberalism
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Economic system the provision of goods and services to meet biological and social wants. People must rely on economic system to bring it their wants. Production systems must designate ways to allocate resources. Allocation of resources the knowledge people use to assign rights to the ownership and use of resources. Technology part of a culture that involves the knowledge that people use to make and use tools and to extract and refine raw materials. Americans usually associate technology with the tools and machines used for manufacturing, rather than with the knowledge for doing it. Division of labor the rules that govern the assignment of jobs to people. In hunting/gathering societies, labor is often divided along the lines of gender/age. Almost everyone knows how to produce, use, collect material goods. However, in industrial society, jobs are highly specialized and labor is divided on the basis of skill/experience (rarely do we know how to do so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else"s jo(cid:271) i(cid:374) our (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455))
