Enumeration Flashcards
3 Social Differences
Gender
Socioeconomic Status
Exceptionality
7 Exceptionality
•Developmental delay
•Gifted and Talented
•Hearing Loss
•Mental Illness
•Intellectual Disability
•Physical Disability
•Speech and Language Disorder
3 Cultural Variation
Religion
Ethnicity
Nationality
3 Mechanism of Change
Diffusion
Invention
Discovery
Changes Within Society
Change is constant
Along with time, persons, environment and ideologies change
People move in and move out
People live and die
People make discoveries and innovations
Fields of Social Science
Anthropology
Sociology
Political Science
Subfields of Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Physical Anthropology
Archaeology
Linguistic Anthropology
Forms of Government
Democapract
Monarchy
Authoritarian
Communism
Republic
Structures of Government
Executive
Legislative
Judiciary
Bureaucracy
Relationship to other institutions
Economic System
Education System
Legal System
Media
Goals of Anthropology
- Look at one’s own culture more objectively like an outsider.
2.Discover what makes people different from one another to understand and preserve diversity.
3.Discover what people have in common
4.Produce new knowledge and new theories about humankind and human behavior.
Goals of Sociology
- Obtain theories and principles about the society and aspects of human life
- Study the nature of humanity which leads to examining our roles in the society.
3.Appreciate that all things are interdependent with other.
4.Expose our minds on the perspectives in attaining the truth.
Goals of Political Science
- Education for citizenship
2.Essential parts of liberal education
3.Knowledge and understanding of government.
Rationale for Studying Anthropology
- Anthropology broadens your horizons and changes your perspectives
- Anthropology is relevant
- Anthropology is useful
4.Anthropology helps us to deal with complexity
5.Anthropology is interesting
Rationale for Studying Sociology
- Sociology makes you a different person from the rest.
- It provides valuable info about race and its impact to present
3.It involves the description and explanation of social structures and processes - It tells us that health is human right.
Anthropological perspectives on culture and society
The Evolutionist Intellectual Persoective
The French Sociology School
The British Functionalist School
Sociological Perspectives on Culture and Society
Symbolic Interactionism
Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Aspects of Culture
Culture is Everything
Culture is Learned
Culture is Shared
Aspects of Society
Culture affects Biology
Culture is Adaptive
Culture is Maladaltive
Culture Changes
