Monday, September 14, 2009

PERSIG Notes

Political how a country is ruled

  • make laws and make sure they are obeyed
  • different countries are ruled differently (democracy, monarchy, military force, etc.)


Economic how the people find the means to eat

  • has to do with money or resources
  • commerce (trade or business)
  • jobs (trades and professions)
  • agriculture (farming) and manufacturing


Religious how the people find the meaning to life

  • belief systems of people
  • explains how beliefs in God (or no God)
  • influence the way people behave


Social how the people get along and interact with each other

  • authoritarian society (strict rules)
  • deference society (ranking of people)
  • egalitarian society (people equal under the law)


Intellectual how people in a society learn

  • inventions a society makes that change life and society (printing, electricity, factories, automobile, etc.)
  • big ideas (equality, freedom, etc.)


Geography how the land affects a nation’s history and people (e.g. living close the resources)

  • how people change the land

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