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1Q: social sciences & lesson 1 Flashcards

1
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field of study that examines and analyzes the interactions of people in a society

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social science

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is the view that ideas come from experience

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empiricism

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3
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philosopher of 1689

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john locke

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4
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philosopher of 1748

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david hume

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5
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philospher of 1710

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george Berkely

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comes from greek words “anthropos” which means ____ and “logos” which means to study

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anthropology, man

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7
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(anth) humanity’s biological and evolutionary framework

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physical or biological

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(anth) prehistoric cultures

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archaeology

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(anth) human and natural languages

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linguistics

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(anth) understand the different cultural elements

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cultural

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derived from the latin word ____ which means companion and logos

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sociology, socius

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comes from the greek word ____ or household management, infinite needs and wants

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economics, oikonomia

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greek word ____ meaning finding out or narrative, past events

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history, historia

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city-state-polis and the latin word. scire meaning to know

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political science

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15
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father of history

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herodotus

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16
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____ meaning soul or mind, human behaviors, structures

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pyschology, psyche

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17
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views society as a collection; parts that coexist

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structural functionalism

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18
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used to hughlight the impact of social elemnts of different structures in the soc

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functional, dysfunctional

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19
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contribute to social stability

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functional

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20
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disruot oriderliness

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dysfunctional

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21
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seen and commonly recognized functions

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manifest function

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22
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unseen functions

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latent functions

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23
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theory wherein there is inequalities in social classes; all institutions face struggles

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conflict theory

24
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proposed conflict theory

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karl marx

25
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emergence of two distinct classes of distribution of power and wealth

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industrialization

26
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methods of creation, the mayaman class

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bourgeoisie

27
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laborers that work

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proletariat

28
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recognized by society as a problem that prevents the society from functioning optimally

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social issues

29
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concern affevting our society in modern times

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contemporary issues

30
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features of contemporary issues

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• impactful and influential
• time and appropriate
• relevant and significant to people
• thematic

31
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ability to see ghings from diff prespectives, empathize, and understand

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social awareness

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key attributes to social awareness

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• perspective taking
• empathy
• appreciating adversity
• respect for others

33
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meambers o an organized group decide that most of its members secretly believe in unwise.

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groupthink

34
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state.or position lf behaviour in which certain indiciduals or all paopel society disadvantegd or harmed

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social issues

35
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ex of si

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poverty, emvrionmental degradation, unemployment, inequality, graft and corruption

36
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american sociologist; coined the term social imagination; personal issues

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charles wright mills (1959)

37
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capacity to analyze the structural origin

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sociological imagination

38
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originate from a scoiety’s social structure and culture

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public issues

39
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an action detrimental to the structures of society

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social symptoms

40
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types of social symptoms

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• destructive behavior (c, v, d)
• unsuccessful, unproductive, and debatable regulations is an attempty to prevent/reduce the mentioned behavior (woc, vigi)
• generations of material, political, social, and cultural environments that are unjust and traumatic to people (h, h, p)

41
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william ryan (1971) once said …

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“the root cause of socials issues is failure to have acomprehensive understanding to thier causes.”

42
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observer to society

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passive actor

43
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a person involved in the social problem

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partocipating actor

44
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ay of seeing the world as a complex web of interdependent systems; a system can be understood by taking a sun of its indiv parts

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system thinking

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framing a problem in terms of pattern and behavior overtime

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dynamic thinking

46
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placing responsibility for behavior on internal actors

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system-as-cause thinking

47
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acknowledgement of many things/ideas/species living together

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forest thinking

48
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the ability to form hypothesis, conduct experiments, analyze results, and deductive reasoning.

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operational thinking

49
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shows the effect usually feeds back to influences ine or more of the causes

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closed-loop thinking

50
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inclination to view natural and everyday phenomena through a lens of measurable events

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quantitative thinking

51
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the process of viewing ideas using science, observations, investigational processes, and testing them to gain knowledge

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scientific thinking

52
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allows us to identify opportunitues for intervention in resolving problems.

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system thinking

53
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sees an individual as a human being

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study of society

54
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it is used to understand social phenomena

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social constructivism

55
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defines this as the knowledge people use to live their lives and the way in which they do so

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handwerker (2002)

56
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reasons why it’s hard to resolve a particular contemporary issue

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• prior conditions
• symptoms of groupthink
• defective decision-making

57
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people fail to see the full arrat of causes of social issues, causing them to reappear and become perennial

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william ryan (1971)

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