What is economic alienation in industrial societies the result of?
a. loss of land
b. subculture of poverty
c. negative reciprocity
d. separation from the product of one’s labor
e. discontent due to low pay
How are non-industrial economic systems embedded?
a. People are not aware that they are working toward a goal.
b. The economic system has little to do with the everyday life of the people.
c. The economic system cannot easily be separated from the other systems, such as kinship.
d. Most nonindustrial economies are managed systems.
e. Most economic activity takes place far from the home.
With balanced reciprocity, a person:
a. tries to get something for as little as possible.
b. exchanges with people only within her or his nuclear family.
c. gives and expects something in return, which may not come immediately, but the giver will be upset if the person who received the gift does
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