Chapter 1 Flashcards
Is the socially constructed characteristics of being male or female
Gender
Centers on the biological differences, gender is the culturally-learned difference between men and women
Sex
Is the expression of the set of cultural ideas held by a distinct ethnic or indigenous people.
Ethnicity
Refers to the “theory, art and practice of government.”
Politics
Is an organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or the supernatural, along with associated ceremonial or ritualistic practices by which people try to interpret and/ or influence aspects of the universe otherwise beyond human control.
Religion
It is a type of social classes.
It consist of Elite Families.
Upper Class
It is a type of Social Classes.
It consist of small business and industry operators mostly owners and manager.
Middle Class
It is a type of Social Class.
It consist of farmer employees, skilled and unskilled Artisan, service worker, unemployed or underemployed.
Lower Class
It is an organized group or groups of interdependent people who share a common territory, language, and other culture, and who act together
Society
It refers to the category of persons who have more or less the same socio-economic privileges in a society.
Socio-economic Status
Men are perceived to be superior than woman. They are ascribed more vigorous occupational roles like plowing as opposed to women who are relegated to homemaking and child rearing.
Judeo Christian World
It mains a community of men who are more gossipy, artistic, and nirturant towards their children than their wives.
New Guinean Highlanders
Who defined culture as a complex whole that emcompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge and everything a person learns and shares as a member of a society.
Edward Tylor
It refers to the state of being intelectually gifted and having physically or mentally challenged and conditions concerning personality/behavior communication.
Exceptionality
Is the legal relationship that binds a person and a country.
Nationality