1.1 Flashcards
refers to the differences in social behaviors that different cultures exhibit around the world
Cultural Variation
comes from a Latin word ‘religare’ means ‘to bind together’
Religion
> a system of beliefs and practices ad well as systems of actions directed toward entities which are above men.
> it is an organized system of idea about the spiritual sphere or the supernatural
Religion
is the expression of the set of cultural ideas held by distinct ethics or indigeneous group
Ethnicity
> is the legal relationship that binds a person and a country
> it allows the state to protect and have jurisdiction over a person
Nationality
> is the legal relationship that binds a person and a country
> it allows the state to protect and have jurisdiction over a person
Nationality
are the differences among the individuals on the basid of social characteristic and qualities
Social Differences
> is the socially constructed characteristics of being male or female
serves as guide on how males and females think and act about themselves
Gender
> refers to the category of persons who have more or less the same socio-economic privileges
> upper class, middle class, and lower class
Socio-Economic Status
refers to the state of being intellectually gifted and/or having physically or mentally challenged conditions
Exceptionality
> is a segment of society which shares a distinctive patter of mores, folkways, and values which differ from the pattern of larger society
> these are groups that have specific cultural traits that set them apary from the dominant culture
Subculture
is a group whose values and norms place it at odds with mainstream society or a group that actively rejects dominant cultural values and norms
Counter culture
> is a term now usrd in a number of different ways in academic discourse
> is the set of cultural products, mainly in arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture
High culture
culture based on the tastes of ordinary people rather than an educated elite
Popular Culture
is almost always associated with a group affiliation and describes the ways in which being a membet of a particular group might express specific political opinions and attitudes
Political Identity
signifies membership in a group that defined a worldview and a vore set of common values
Partisan Politics
race often determined whether citizens could vote, with whom they could associate, where they went to school and other fundamental aspects of life
Race and Identity
> possible factor that shapes political identity can be economic class
> peoples’ interests, outlook and life prospects are frequently conditioned by their economic circumstances
Class and Identity
colonists used theut ideas of custom and culture as a basis for distiniguishing “the native” as a kund of politival identity
Colonialism and Identity
study of humans and human behavior in the past and present
anthropology
Father of American Anthropology
Franz Boas
- father of ethnographic methodology
- his idea on participant observation
Bronislaw Malinowski
an English social anthropologist who developed the theory of structural functionalism and coadaptation
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe Brown
scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.
Sociology
- a French Philosopher
- founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism
Auguste Comte
- only woman in sociology philosophers
- She was a self taught expert in political economic theory
Harriet Martineau
- father of modern socialism
- Communism and conflict theory.
Karl Marx
- academic discipline
- principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology
Emile Durkheim
social theory and social research
Max Weber
Coined the term “stereotype”
Walter Lipmann
An alteration of mechanism within the social structure
social change
Modification of a society through innovation or contact with other societies
cultural change
A subject matter that is in constant flux
political change
3 agents of change
innovation, action of leaders, social conflict
one of the founders of modern anthropology, characterize culture as a “complex whole”
Edward Tylor