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1
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is a complex whole
that encompasses beliefs, practices,
values, attitudes, norms, laws,
artifacts, symbols, and knowledge
that a person learns and shares as a
member of society

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Culture

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No formal punishment, but disapproval from others

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Folkways

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Examines the social structure, the social institutions, social organizations and social groups.

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Macrosiology

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Closed stratification systems where people can do little or nothing to change the social standing of their birth. The caste system determines all aspects of an individual’s life.

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Caste

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is considered one of the greatest inventions of man since it is an essential tool in teaching and transferring knowledge from one generation to the other.

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Language

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These are common in areas where crops cannot be supported and only have to move when the land in which the animals graze is no longer usable.

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Pastoral Societies

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They use advanced sources of energy to run large machinery which led to industrialization

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Industrial Societies

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Studies classical and modern politics.

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political theory

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9
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Give a country that practices the caste system

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India and South Africa

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MORES- a Latin word that means?

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custom

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Give 3 examples of Mores

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Rape (formal punishment)

Adultery (no formal punishment)

Marrying a close relative

Marrying more than one person at a time

incest

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Give examples of Symbols

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kissing the hands of the elderly (pagmamano) is a symbol of respect in most Asian countries, rings as a symbol of commitment, the white flag symbolizes surrendering, etc.

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This time, towns form, and cities emerged, job specialization increases, and the economy becomes more complex.

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Agricultural Societies

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Rely on products obtained through the domestication and breeding of animals for transportation and food.

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Pastoral Societies

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Studies how laws are made and being applied on a certain nation or state.

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Constitutional Law

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• The scientific study of a society – its origin, development, networks, and functions.
• The study of relationships among people.

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Sociology

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Consists of intangible and abstract objects. In Includes customs, tradition, habits, manners, attitude, beliefs, language, literature, art, law, religion etc.

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Non-material culture

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marked such a great transformation in many of the world’s societies

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Industrial Societies

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Brought about technological advances that improved people’s health and expanded their life spans

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industrialization

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based on personal merit.

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Meritocracy

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Consists of concrete and tangible objects like tools, implements, furniture, automobiles, books, buildings, dams etc. These concrete and tangible objects are man-made,

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Material culture

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It also pertains to a group of individuals involved in social interaction or sharing the same geographical or social territory.

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Society

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Main Branches of Cultural anthropology

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Archeology
Anthropological Linguistics
Ethnology

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Represents the social structures and organizations of the people who share those beliefs and practices.

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society

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•plays a major role in our day-to-day living
•a strong part of people’s lives

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Culture

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However, mores are not _____. Like folkways, they are subject to change, though more slowly, through time

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fixed

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• The science of humanity.
• Is the study human beings, their origin, their societies, and their cultures.
• It roots its observations to the origin of humans to understand fully the societies and cultures of the human organisms through time.

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Anthropology

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28
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2 Major Approaches to Examine Human History

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Macrolevel Perspective
Microlevel Perspective

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29
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These are the customs or folkways a society needs to adhere to strictly. violation of mores usually has corresponding consequences

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Mores

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According to ___________, beliefs are the means by which people make sense of their experiences or ideas that they hold to be true, factual, and real.

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Richley Crapo

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31
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the period from about 1750 to the late 1800

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Industrial Revolution

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32
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Norms can be classified into three. What are these three?

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  1. Folkways
  2. Mores
  3. Law
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are illustrations used to represent a particular meaning of something. People attach a specific meaning to an object, gesture, sound, or image.

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Symbols

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34
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warriors & rulers

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Kshatriyas

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Example of norms

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pakisuyo in jeepneys

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  • it is defined as the custom beliefs, traits, and social forms that define a specific racial, religious, or social group.
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Culture

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37
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Innovations in transportation led people to travel, work in factories and live in cities.

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Industrial Societies

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38
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studies past cultures through tangible or material remains.

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ARCHEOLOGY

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39
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The economy is dependent on tangible goods, people must pursue greater education and the new communications technology allows work to be performed from a variety of locations.

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Post Industrial Societies

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40
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In Estate, What are the two that fall into the privilege category?

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NOBILITY AND CLERGY

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The system/body of persons by which a state or community is controlled so as to put order.

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Government

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42
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It enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography within society.

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Sociological imagination

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43
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Enumerate the Major Types of Social Stratification.

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Caste

Class

Estate

Slavery

44
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Studies bureaucracies on how it is functional and how to improve it by certain theories.

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Public Administration

45
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They are often forced to relocate when the resources of the land are depleted or when the water supplies decrease.

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Horticultural Societies

46
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Give a country that practices the class system

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United States

47
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A type of culture that is being learned or observed by humans (e.g., religions, folk behavior, gestures, and customs)

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Non-material Culture

48
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Studies politics among nations.

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International relation

49
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Farmers, traders & merchants

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Vaishyas

50
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relates to morals. Morally wrong is defined by society. SOMETIMES formal punishment

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Mores

51
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the anthropological study of human languages where experts explain the difference of languages by culture and how it is constructed

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS

52
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is a society’s standards and acceptable behavior.

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norms

53
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refers to “that complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of society.” (E.B. Tylor 1920 [1871]).

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Culture

54
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Give at least 3 examples of Folkways

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Not wearing white/ivory as a bride

Picking nose in public

Talking to yourself (loudly) in public

Pagkakamay or eating with bare hands is a folkway in Filipino societies.

55
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Productivity increases, and as long as there are plenty of food, people do not have to move.

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Agricultural Societies

56
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The members survive primarily by hunting, trapping, fishing, and gathering edible plants

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Hunting and Gathering societies

57
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describes a group of people who share a common territory and a culture.

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society

58
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A political approach wherein people of a particular race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social background, social class, or other identifying factors develop political agendas that are based upon these identities.

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POLITICAL IDENTITIES

59
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formalized mores that are legislated, approved, and implemented in society. - This are deliberately crafted to produce a highly organized society and establish stability & order.

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Laws

60
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a type of culture created that is tangible or created by a person (e.g., food, clothing, technology)

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Material Culture

61
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The world is visibly divided into different countries. Each country has its own ____________ to run its government.

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political system

62
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Give 3 examples of Beliefs

A

usog, bati, kulam

63
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are the means by which people make sense of their experiences or ideas that they hold to be true, factual, and real.

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Beliefs

64
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Places more emphasis on the role of the individuals in society.

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Microsiology

65
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the study of what makes us human. Anthropologists take a broad approach to understand the many different aspects of the human experience, which we call holism. They consider the past, through archeology, to see how human groups lived hundreds or thousands of years ago and what was important to them.

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Anthropology

66
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It is mainly concerned about how humans emerged and evolved through time

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PHYSICAL (BIOLOGICAL) ANTHROPOLOGY

67
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The earliest forms of society.
These are small and generally with less than 50 members and is nomadic.

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Hunting and Gathering societies

68
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People can distinguish good or bad through them, depending on the ____ of their society

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norm

69
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Give at least 3 examples of Laws

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Running red lights, speeding, murder, rape, illegal drug use, minor in possession, DWI, DUI, theft, etc

70
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  • comes from the Greek word “politika” which means affairs of the cities.
  • It also refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance over a human community.
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Politics

71
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These societies rely on the cultivation of fruits, vegetables and plants in order to survive. Horticultural societies, however, are characterized by cultivating vegetation with simple tools and without large, permanent farms.

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Horticultural Societies

72
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A system of symbols that individuals utilize to communicate, interact, and share their views, thus, creating an understanding among individuals.

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Language

73
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written language and numbers began to
be used

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Agricultural Societies

74
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the study of recent or present cultures

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ethnology

75
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Their economy is based on services and technology, not production.

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Post Industrial Societies

76
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It describes the relative social position of persons in a given social group, category, geographical region, or other social units.

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SOCIAL STRATIFICATION

77
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In Estate, What are the three that fall into the non privilege category?

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BOURGEOISIE, PEASANTRY AND OUTCASTS

78
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society is being shaped by the human mind, aided by computer technology

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Postindustrial societies

79
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According to ____________, symbols are illustrations used to represent a particular meaning of something. People attach a specific meaning to an object, gesture, sound, or image.

A

Elizabeth Lawley

80
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THEY RELY ON THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN ORDER TO CULTIVATE CROPS IN LARGE AREAS, INCLUDING WHEAT, RICE, AND CORN.

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Agricultural Societies

81
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Priests & teachers

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Brahmins

82
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Gives emphasis to birth as well as wealth and possessions

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Estate

83
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2 Broad Fields of Anthropology

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  1. Physical Anthropology (Biological Anthropology)
  2. Cultural Anthropology
84
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a branch of social science concerned chiefly with the description and analysis of political and especially governmental institutions and processes

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Political Science

85
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Social stratification based on ascription or birth.

Birth alone determines one’s destiny.

There is little opportunity for social mobility.

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A caste system

86
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Studies politics within other nations.

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Comparative politics

87
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Formal punishment, written rules. SOMETIMES associated with mores.

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Laws

88
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Subfields of Political Science

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Comparative Politics
International Relation
Political Theory
Public Administration
Constitutional Law
Public Policy

89
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Represents the beliefs, practices, artifacts of a group

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culture

90
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Deals with systems of government and the analysis of political activity and political behavior.

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Political Science

91
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According to him culture is a complex whole that encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, norms, laws, artifacts, symbols, and knowledge that a person learns and shares as a member of society.

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Sir Edward Burnett Tylor

92
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Give examples of values

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saying po and opo is a Filipino value that signifies respect but that means nothing to international societies

93
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marked a watershed in the development of human society

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Agricultural Societies

94
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It is basically concerned with the differences of cultures from time to time.

A

CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGY

95
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the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior

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Sociology

96
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sociologists refer to a definable region – as small as a neighborhood to as large as the global regional context.

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territory

97
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Economic basis wherein the master shows power over a slave

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Slavery

98
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Street sweepers, latrine cleaners

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Dalits (outcastes)

99
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Studies the interface of politics and economics.

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PUBLIC POLICY

100
Q

• A person’s position is based upon achievement

• A society is separated into parties whose members have different access to resources and power

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Class

101
Q

Social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement.

Even blood relatives may have different social standings.

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A class system

102
Q

The term transdisciplinary was used for
the first time by the French
psychologist and structuralist?

A

Jean
Piaget

103
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are norms that members of society have come to accept as the proper way of dealing with their everyday living and social interactions.

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FOLKWAYS

104
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Help shape a society by suggesting what is good and bad, beautiful and ugly, sought or avoided.

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Values

105
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Labourers

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Shudras

106
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Types of Societies accd. to sociologists

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HUNTING AND GATHERING SOCIETIES
PASTORAL SOCIETIES
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES

107
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A set of _____ in a specific society may be different from the set of it in its neighboring societies.

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values

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