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Human Geography
• Culture-is the total of knowledge ,
attitudes, and behaviors shared by and
passed on by members of a group.
• DO YOU KNOW YOUR CULTURE?
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Culture involves these factors:
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Food and shelter
Religion
Relationships to family and others
Language
Education
Security/protection
Political and social organization
Creative expression
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Human Geography
• World census data
• http://www.census.gov/popclock/
• Population density
• http://www.prb.org/publications/datashe
ets/2013/2013-world-population-datasheet/worldmap.aspx#map/world/births/mrate
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World Population Growth
• Birthrate-
• Mortality rate-
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World Religions
• http://www.religioustolerance.org/mapwr
ldrel.htm
• Polytheistic• Monotheistic• Animistic or traditional
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PRINCIPLES OF
GOVERNMENT
Government and the State
Walking Dead-ANARCHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=GJRNHAJAcYg
THRILLER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
hG6oy46qKE4&list=RDhG6oy46q
KE4
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WHAT IS GOVERNMENT?
• Government: the political and
administrative institutions of a society,
the institution found in every civilized
society that passes, administers and
enforces the laws that control the
society.
• Examples: Autocracy-rule by one
• Oligarchy-rule by few
• Democracy-rule by many
• Theocracy-
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World Map
• http://www.mapsofworld.com/
• World Governments
• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/t
he-world-factbook/fields/2128.html
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Sovereign State -
a body of people, occupying a
defined territory, organized
politically and having power to
make and enforce law without
consent of a higher authority.
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Government
Types of States and Other
Political Units
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POLITICAL SYSTEMS
• A society’s political system includes all
the formal and informal ways the society
goes about determining who will have
political authority, how much they will
have and how and for what purposes it
will be exercised.
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CLASSIFICATION OF
GOVERNMENT BY NUMBER
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
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DICTATORSHIP
Can be based on an individual
Or an ideology
Authoritarian-complete obedience to an
authority, concentration of political
power in an authority not responsible to
the people.
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Totalitarian-a political regime based on
subordination of the individual to the state
and strict control of all aspects of life by
coercive means.
• Show Equilibrium
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raleK
ODYeg0
• The Giver
• https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=
the+giver+movie+trailer
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Economics: The Creation
and Distribution of Wealth
Economics: Use of scarce resources to
produce goods/services, distribute them
among competing groups/individuals
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Land
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Labor
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Capital
Entrepreneurship
U.S. has a mixed
market economy
Capitalism
FREE MARKET
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Adam Smith-1776 The Wealth
of Nations-laissez faire
Private Property
Profit/Ownership
Freedom of Competition
Freedom of Choice
Socialism
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Private & Public
Ownership
Government owns the
basic means of production
Creates Social Equality &
Equality of Results
Communism
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COMMAND ECONOMY
Public Ownership
Central Planning/Controlled
Economy
Karl Marx
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6 steps to theory:
Economic Interpretation of History
Class Struggle-Bourgeoisie v. Proletariat
Overthrow of the Bourgeoisie ( can be violent)
Dictatorship of the Proletariat, but with the ultimate
goal of a classless society
• Establishment of Communism “each work according
to their ability, receive according to their needs.
U.S. Government
Economic Tools
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Monetary Policy- management of
money supply
Fiscal Policy- management of
taxes and government
expenditures
National Debt
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
DVD-Foundations of Wealth
Segment 10-The Mixed
Economy
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