Want, Need, or Demand?
I am something you would like to have, but you do not need me for survival. What am I?
A WANT.
Which system allows private individuals and businesses to own businesses and produce goods for profit?
Capitalism.
What term means “adapting a product or service to a culture”?
Glocalization.
How many levels are in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
FIVE.
Which type of solidarity is based mainly on shared beliefs, similar lifestyles, and similar roles?
Mechanical solidarity.
I am something required to maintain your physical, emotional, or financial health. What am I?
A NEED.
What resource did slavery, communism, and capitalism all require to produce goods and services?
Labor: human work or effort.
An international restaurant adds dishes using local flavors to its menu in Bahrain. What is this an example of?
Glocalization, because it adapts its products to local culture.
Name Maslow’s five levels, starting at the bottom.
Physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, self-actualization.
Which type of solidarity is based on people with different specialized roles depending on one another?
Organic solidarity.
A consumer wants to purchase a product and is willing and able to pay a specific price. Which economic term describes this?
DEMAND.
Which used trading relationships: slavery, communism, capitalism, or all three? Explain briefly.
ALL THREE. Goods and resources could be exchanged in societies using each system, although ownership and control differed.
What is cultural appropriation?
Using elements of another culture without appropriate understanding, respect, or acknowledgment, especially when a more powerful group takes from a marginalized group.
Match each example to a level: A. Food and sleep. B. Feeling protected. C. Having close friends. D. Feeling respected. E. Developing your full potential.
A: Physiological. B: Safety. C: Love and belonging. D: Esteem. E: Self-actualization.
A small community shares traditions, and most people do similar work. A large city has doctors, farmers, engineers, and teachers who rely on one another. Identify the solidarity in each.
Small community: Mechanical. Large city: Organic.
Classify each: A. Clean drinking water. B. A limited-edition gaming controller. C. A customer willing and able to pay BD20 for headphones.
A: Need. B: Want. C: Demand.
Match the examples: North Korea and the USA. Which is mainly a command economy, and which is mainly a market economy?
North Korea: command economy. USA: mainly a market economy.
A fashion company uses a community’s sacred symbol as decoration, ignores its meaning, and gives the community no credit. Identify the issue and explain why.
Cultural appropriation, because the company uses a meaningful cultural element without respect, understanding, or acknowledgment.
Identify three possible negative impacts of social media.
Any three: cyberbullying, unhealthy comparison, low self-esteem, disrupted sleep, distraction, misinformation, privacy problems, pressure to fit in.
Explain how a school can demonstrate both mechanical and organic solidarity.
Mechanical: Shared rules, traditions, identity, or values. Organic: Students depend on teachers, cleaners, administrators, and other staff who perform different roles.
Sara wants a BD500 phone but cannot afford it. Ahmed wants the same phone, has BD500, and is willing to buy it at that price. Who demonstrates demand, and why?
Ahmed, because he is both willing and able to pay. Sara demonstrates a want, but not demand at that price.
Country A’s government decides what factories produce. In Country B, businesses respond mainly to what consumers want to buy. Identify each economy and explain the difference.
A: Command. B: Market. Government directs production in A; consumer demand and business decisions largely guide production in B.
Compare these examples: A. A company works with local artists, credits them, and pays them to adapt a product. B. A company copies a sacred design without permission or credit. Which shows respectful cultural collaboration, and which suggests appropriation?
A: Respectful collaboration, because the artists participate and receive credit and payment. B: Appropriation, because the cultural meaning and community are disregarded.
A student stays awake scrolling, feels inferior after comparing themselves with influencers, and receives cruel comments online. Identify three negative impacts and connect one to Maslow.
Disrupted sleep, unhealthy comparison/low self-esteem, and cyberbullying. Sleep connects to physiological needs; feeling inferior connects to esteem; bullying can affect safety or belonging.
Why does mechanical solidarity become less sufficient as society grows, and why is organic solidarity necessary?
Larger societies contain more diverse people and specialized jobs, so similarity alone cannot hold them together. Organic solidarity connects people through their dependence on one another’s work.