Culture, Society, and Politics Flashcards
Encompasses individual challenges; often ascribed to one’s limitations
Personal Trouble
Matters of public concern
Social Issues
Who invented Social Imagination?
Wright Mills
Social Imagination
Ability to see the bigger picture
Complex network of individuals
Society
Encompasses human behaviour and material items that are an intrinsic element of this behaviour
Culture
Undergoes cycle of creation, maintenance, and destruction
Dynamic, Flexible, and Adaptive
What is Social Differentiation
Groups are distinct from one another results to having divisions and inequalities in society
All aspects of culture shall be integrated together to keep functioning
Integrated
Requires Language and other forms of Communication
Symbolic and Semantic, both culture and communication are linked
People create, preserve, and change general rules by which they live in
Politics
Social Constructionism
Human life is molded by social and interpersonal influences
Individuals assign themselves based on behaviours and expression
Gender
Assigned to you at birth
Sex
Romantic or sexual attraction to other people
Sexual Orientation
Internal sense of being, male, female, both, or neither
Gender Identity
Gender identity through behaviour, clothing, hairstyle
Gender Expression
Common culture, history, language
Nation
Political Unit with territory, government, and population
State
Encompasses various beliefs
Religion
Categorisation based on social and economic status
Socioeconomic class
One’s affiliation to a specific nation
Nationality
Legal status that grants rights and privileges
Citizenship
Study of Humankind
Anthropology
Study of all social factors mutually influencing government operations
Politics
Study of all aspects and institutions
Sociology
