Economic Sectors
Doctors, bankers, teachers
3 types of Tertiary jobs
Secondary Sector
Add values to materials by changing their form. (More valuable commodities)
Subsistence economy
An economic system that involves total self-sufficiency on part of its members
Boserup thesis
Based on the observation that population increases necessitate increased inputs of labor and technology to compensate for reductions in the natural yields of swiffen farming
Tertiary activities
Business and labor specializations that provide services to the primary and secondary sectors and good and services to the general community
Planned Economies
Communist-controlled societies Extreme cases
Primary Sector
Countries under this sector tend to be less wealthy
Intensive subsistence agriculture
Cultivation of small landholdings through the expenditure of great amounts of labor per acre
Market (Commercial) Economies
Dominant in nearly all parts of the world More for selling
AIDS researcher
Example of a Quaternary job
Astronaut
Example of a Quinary job
Africa, south and east Asia, Latin AMerica
Examples of continents with subsistence agriculture
Primary Sector
Extracting something from the Earth
Transhuamnce
Form of seasonal movement of livestock
Fishing, Hunting + Gathering, Mining
Give 3 examples of Primary Sector jobs
Steel making, metalworking, automobile production
Give 3 examples of Secondary Sector jobs
Subsistence Economies
Goods and services are created for the use of the producers and their kinship groups Little or minimal trade
Agriculture
Growing of crops, tending of livestock for subsistence of producers or for sale
Quinary Sector
High-level decision making roles in all types of large organizations High end of information sector (Usually government sponsored)
Secondary Sector
Industrial societies fall under which sector
Extensive subsistence agriculture
Large areas of lands and minimal labor input per hectare
United States of America
Market (commercial) countries? (Though not 100% commercial)
Cuba, North Korea
Planned economy countries?
Tertiary Sector
Post-industrial societies fall under which sector
Primary Sector
Pre-industrial societies fall under which sector
Shifting cultivation
Rotating fields rather than crops
Quaternary Sector
Subset of Tertiary Based on information and research Works in education, govt, management, research (Private company)
Nomadic herding
The wandering but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent on natural forage, is the most extensive type of land use system
Extensive and Intensive
Two chief types of subsistence agriculture:
Nomadic herding and shifting cultivation
Two types of extensive subsistence agriculture
Primary Sector
Which sector is the beginning of the production cycle?
Technology
Workers in MDCs can produce more with less effort because of
