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Scarce (scarcity):
A condition in which human wants exceed available resources.
Self Interest:
A motivation that is focused on the satisfaction of an individual or group, not necessarily selfishness.
Service(s):
An action performed by another that can satisfy wants.
Social Contract:
Agreement of all the people in a society to give up part of their freedoms to a government in return for protection of their natural rights.
Socialism:
An economic system in which the government owns the basic means of production, determines the use of resources, distributes products and wages, and provides social services.
Social Responsibility:
An ethical or ideological theory that an entity, whether it is a government, corporation, organization or individual, has a responsibility to work for the betterment of society.
Sovereignty:
The authority of a political unit to make and enforce laws.
Spatial:
Pertaining to space on Earth's surface; refers to distances, directions, areas and other aspects of space.
Spatial Decision:
Decision made pertaining to distribution, distance, direction, areas and other aspects of space on the Earth's surface.
Spatial Distribution:
The locations of features or measurements observed in geographic space.
Spatial Organization:
The arrangement of physical and human objects on the earth's surface.
Spatial Patterns:
Pattern of space on the Earth's surface.
Spatial Perspective:
The point of view that emphasizes the essential issue of place - embodied in specific questions such as, Where is it? or Why is it there? - as a fundamental dimension of human experience.
Specialization:
The concentration of effort on only one task or a few tasks.
Standards of Living:
A level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries available to an individual group or nation.
Store of Value:
Something used to transfer buying power into the future.
Suburban:
Pertaining to the culture, manners, and customs of a residential area outlying a city.
Suburbanization:
The movement of people from cities to adjacent areas.
Suffrage:
The right to vote.
Supply:
(n.) The quantity of a good or service that sellers are willing to sell. (v.) To offer to sell goods and services.
Supremacy Clause:
Article VI, Section 2 of the Constitution, which states that the Constitution, laws passed by Congress and the treaties of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land and binding on the states.