Exam 3: Households and Economies

Large farm enterprises in the U.S are commonly associated with:

Many illegal activities are part of the informal economy.

The most common form of exchange within an egalitarian society is redistribution.

The study of how people produce, distribute, and consume goods is called:

Markets originated as part of capitalist systems.

Pastoralists are dependent on sedentary communities for trade.

Which mode of production is the least labor intensive?

In the 1950s, the international push of industrial agribusinesses to create high-yield varieties of crops and dramatically increase productivity was known as the:

​Describe an anthropological approach to economics.

Today agribusiness is associated with each of the following except:

Households are the smallest stand-alone social unit as far as economic production.

Today, the term "peasants" is considered far more accurate to define an agricultural way of life than the word "farmer."

Which of the following would not customarily be considered part of the informal economy?

Horticulturalists are highly mobile and live in seasonal dwellings.

Food producers involve all of the following except:

​Name and briefly describe each of the four primary modes of production.

In which of the following would you expect to find a more strict sexual (gender) division of labor?

If one woman has five tomatoes and the other woman has twenty nuts and they exchange these in a transaction that occurs "immediately" and with no delayed return, it is classified as:

The household involves all of the following except:

Only under capitalist economies is labor seen as a commodity that people sell for wages.