Homework:
- Choose a topic sentence from your pre-writing homework and write 3 pieces of support for that topic sentence.
- Use the topic sentence and support to write one body paragraph using the strategies we have learned this week in class. You don't need to print it, just type it up and save/email it to yourself because we will be in the lab tomorrow!
Additional Support Websites:
- Types of Economic Systems (website). Shmoop.com - this is student help website that has a lot of information on different topics. This information is more detailed.
- Types of Economic Systems (PowerPoint). This is a PowerPoint that is available through a slide sharing site. The information is basic.
- Comparative Economic Systems (website). This is also a student help website specifically for social studies and subjects relating to them. The information is the most detailed.
Topic Sentence: The first of the similarities between these two systems is the motivation for progression.
Support:
Command system-
- The citizens have little to no motivation to work
- U.S.S.R. citizens
- No real change in economic values
- sustainable with little to no surplus
Traditional system-
- There is motivation to work, but not to change.
- African societies
- Economy is based on necessity
- No more or no less, sometimes even lack
Paragraph:
The first of the similarities between these two systems is the motivation for progress. In the command system, citizens have little to no motivation to work because there is no room for upward mobility. In the U.S.S.R., the citizens were not able to change social status or position once placed in a job--often staying in the same job they were assigned their entire lives. This created a lack of incentive to be good at their jobs, because there was no reason to be better. This also caused a deep divide in the classes furthering the lack of motivation. Another reason for the lack of motivation came through the lack of change in economic values, or supply and demand, because the command system's purpose to create sustainability with little to no surplus. On the other hand, in the traditional system, there is incentive to work because the citizens must work in order to survive, but there is no motivation to change the way things are done. This can be seen in some African societies where there is an order of things done the same way for centuries. This can be seen as a positive thing, except when there is no progression in technology because no change has occurred. This can also be perpetuated by the economic property of the necessity of the commerce created in a traditional system, owing to the fact that these economies sometimes lack some of the essential citizens' needs. All in all, the systems are similar because of the little progress made due to the lack of motivation.
