1Q: social sciences & lesson 1 Flashcards
field of study that examines and analyzes the interactions of people in a society
social science
is the view that ideas come from experience
empiricism
philosopher of 1689
john locke
philosopher of 1748
david hume
philospher of 1710
george Berkely
comes from greek words “anthropos” which means ____ and “logos” which means to study
anthropology, man
(anth) humanity’s biological and evolutionary framework
physical or biological
(anth) prehistoric cultures
archaeology
(anth) human and natural languages
linguistics
(anth) understand the different cultural elements
cultural
derived from the latin word ____ which means companion and logos
sociology, socius
comes from the greek word ____ or household management, infinite needs and wants
economics, oikonomia
greek word ____ meaning finding out or narrative, past events
history, historia
city-state-polis and the latin word. scire meaning to know
political science
father of history
herodotus
____ meaning soul or mind, human behaviors, structures
pyschology, psyche
views society as a collection; parts that coexist
structural functionalism
used to hughlight the impact of social elemnts of different structures in the soc
functional, dysfunctional
contribute to social stability
functional
disruot oriderliness
dysfunctional
seen and commonly recognized functions
manifest function
unseen functions
latent functions
theory wherein there is inequalities in social classes; all institutions face struggles
conflict theory
proposed conflict theory
karl marx
emergence of two distinct classes of distribution of power and wealth
industrialization
methods of creation, the mayaman class
bourgeoisie
laborers that work
proletariat
recognized by society as a problem that prevents the society from functioning optimally
social issues
concern affevting our society in modern times
contemporary issues
features of contemporary issues
• impactful and influential
• time and appropriate
• relevant and significant to people
• thematic
ability to see ghings from diff prespectives, empathize, and understand
social awareness
key attributes to social awareness
• perspective taking
• empathy
• appreciating adversity
• respect for others
meambers o an organized group decide that most of its members secretly believe in unwise.
groupthink
state.or position lf behaviour in which certain indiciduals or all paopel society disadvantegd or harmed
social issues
ex of si
poverty, emvrionmental degradation, unemployment, inequality, graft and corruption
american sociologist; coined the term social imagination; personal issues
charles wright mills (1959)
capacity to analyze the structural origin
sociological imagination
originate from a scoiety’s social structure and culture
public issues
an action detrimental to the structures of society
social symptoms
types of social symptoms
• 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)
william ryan (1971) once said …
“the root cause of socials issues is failure to have acomprehensive understanding to thier causes.”
observer to society
passive actor
a person involved in the social problem
partocipating actor
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
system thinking
framing a problem in terms of pattern and behavior overtime
dynamic thinking
placing responsibility for behavior on internal actors
system-as-cause thinking
acknowledgement of many things/ideas/species living together
forest thinking
the ability to form hypothesis, conduct experiments, analyze results, and deductive reasoning.
operational thinking
shows the effect usually feeds back to influences ine or more of the causes
closed-loop thinking
inclination to view natural and everyday phenomena through a lens of measurable events
quantitative thinking
the process of viewing ideas using science, observations, investigational processes, and testing them to gain knowledge
scientific thinking
allows us to identify opportunitues for intervention in resolving problems.
system thinking
sees an individual as a human being
study of society
it is used to understand social phenomena
social constructivism
defines this as the knowledge people use to live their lives and the way in which they do so
handwerker (2002)
reasons why it’s hard to resolve a particular contemporary issue
• prior conditions
• symptoms of groupthink
• defective decision-making
people fail to see the full arrat of causes of social issues, causing them to reappear and become perennial
william ryan (1971)
