Anthropological and sociological perspectives

Question 1

is the collection of individuals held together by sustained interaction and enduring relationships. People in a society share some degree of common culture.

Answer 1

Society

Question 2

Culture is that —————– which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of society.”

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Answer 2

complex whole, – E.B. Tylor

Question 2

Different Aspects of Culture

Answer 2

material, non material culture

Question 3

Theories on Culture and Society

Answer 3

Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theories
Symbolic Interactionism

Question 4

This theory focuses on the interrelated parts of society and their important functions to achieve order and balance.

Answer 4

Structural Functionalism

Question 5

intended outcome of social activity

Answer 5

Manifest Functions

Question 6

unintended effects of social activity

Answer 6

Latent Functions

Question 7

believe that social order is maintained through the domination of one group over another.

Answer 7

Conflict theories

Question 8

an approach associated with conflict theory, focuses on critiquing society and culture to liberate people

Answer 8

Critical theory

Question 9

explains how people, as members of society, interact, make sense of their world, and attach meaning to it by using symbols.

Answer 9

Symbolic interactionism

Question 10

studies the meanings that individuals create in their social interactions.

Answer 10

The interpretive approach