According to the characteristics of this society, there is little social conflict because property is communal. ... Eventually, as horticulture, or the cultivation of domestic plants using primitive hand tools (Macionis, 1997: 70) developed, these formerly nomadic tribes began to permanently settle in an area, forming a stable community based upon horticulture, agriculture, and pastoralism. ... With the increase in food production due to the domestication of plants and animals came the production of a material surplus, or the production of "more resources than necessary to sustain day-to-day ...

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Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. However this is not wholly true. While eugenics was often loosely based on scientific theory, social Darwinism was not at all. One would be hard-pressed to find any science in social Darwinist thought. After reviewing the current literature on social Darwinism it is not clear that there was a cohesive movement of social Darwinism in America at all. ...

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(p. 181) The children even went out of their way to glean new information, by eavesdropping or lying, "One child went so far as to plant a tape recorder in the conference room [where the doctors held their meetings]" (p. 138). ... Music making usually has the characteristics of play rather than therapy and therefore, offer children a protected space where they really can express their difficult feelings. ...

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