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For Quiz, First Quarter Exam Flashcards

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The study of important recorded events

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History

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-Father of history
He was the first historian to properly record the events that took place during that time

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Herodotus (484-425 BC)

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Improved the writing techniques of Herodotus and emphasized factual reporting, during the Peloponnesian war

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Thucydides (400-460 BC)

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The scientific study of language

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Linguistic

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-Laid the foundation western linguistics as part of the study of rhetoric on his book poetics

-father of political science

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Aristotle (384-322 BC)

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Father of linguistics; dominant model of formal linguistics

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Noam Chomsky (1928)

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Study of politics, power, and government

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Political science

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First thinker to analyze political science; express his political ideas in his book

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Plato (427-347 BC)

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Author of leviathan; human nature is inherently selfish and driven be a desire for power; he believed that a strong ruler is needed to impose order in the state

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Thomas Hobbes (1558-1679)

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Two treatises of government; he believes that the purpose of the government is to protect the “natural rights” of its citizens.

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John Locke (1632-1704)

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Study of behavior and mental processes; its development could be dated back as early as the ancient greece

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Psychology

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Claimed that the brain is the seat of the rational human mind

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Aristotle (384-322 BC)

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German psychologist; father of modern psychology; distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology; first person to call himself a “psychologist”; found the first formal laboratory for psychological research

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Wilhelm wundt (1832-1920)

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Russian experimental scientist; studied the behavior and nervous system of animals

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Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)

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Austrian neurologist pursued to understand the working of an unconscious mind; deemed to be the source of human actions; developed the method known as psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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Is the study of human relationships and institutions

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Sociology

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He invented the term sociology; he emphasized that the study of society must be scientific

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Auguste comte (1798-1857)

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Were also considered as pioneer thinkers in sociology in the early 1900’s;

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Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) and Max Weber (1864-1920)

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Branch of science devoted to the study of human societies and the relationships among individuals within those society

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Social Science

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Established in the 19th century; it is about how they interact with others in the society and how the societies interact with each other

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Science of society

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Branches of social science

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E-conomics
A-nthropology
H-istory
P-sychology
P-olitical science
S-ociology
G-eography
D-emography

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Studies the allocation of scarce resources; the production and exchange of goods and services; comes from the greek word oikonomia means “household management”

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Economics

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Father of economics; an inquiry to the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (1776); lay the foundations for economic theories and doctrine; advocated the doctrine of laissez faire (let-alone policy) means the government should not interfere with business

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Adam Smith (1723-1790)

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Study of humanity

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Anthropology

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He recorded important events in the greek-persian wars (499-449 BC)

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Herodotus (484-425 BC)

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Father of modern anthropology; introduced the concept of cultural relativism

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Franz boas (1858-1942)

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Is the idea that a person’s belief and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture

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Cultural relativism

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Study of human population; came from the Greek word demos, meaning “the people” and graphy meaning “writing about or recording something”

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Demography

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Chanakya (indian teacher); flourished 300 BCE; philosophy: the States are always at wae and seek power

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Kautilya

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(1332-1406); 14th century historian; author of muqaddimah

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Ibn khaldun

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(1766-1834); an essay on the principle of population (1798)

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Thomas Rober Malthus

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Field of science devoted to the study of lands, features, and inhabitants and phenomena of earth; derives from the greek γεωγραφία-geographia, literally “earth-writing”

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Geography

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Father of geography; first person to use the word geography; first peron to calculate the circumference of the earth

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Erastothenes

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Best known for being the first person to calculate the circumference of the earth

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Erastosthenes

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He wrote the three-book volume geographika

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Erastosthenes

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Father of structural functionalism

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Herbert Spencer

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Institutions/structures are interdependent and work together to meet the needs of individual

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Structural functionalism

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He said, Society should be analyzed and described in terms of functions

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Emile Durkheim

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“Society is a system of interrelated parts where no one part can function without the other”

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Emile Durkheim

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Two types of functions

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  1. Manifest function
  2. Latent function
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Intended and recognized

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Manifest function

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Unintended and unrecognized

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Latent function

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Two classes of individuals (marxism)

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  1. Bourgeoisie
  2. Proletariat
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The difference between bourgeoisie and proletariat

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Bourgeoisie (proprietor)
Proletariat (laborers)

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He focused on how society achieves social stability which he referred to as “dynamic equilibrium”

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Talcot parson’s

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The family may meet other needs welfare, military, political, religious functions

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Functional fit theory (talcot parson’s)

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Whole name of max weber

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Maximilian karl emil weber

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One of the founders of modern sociology

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Max weber

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He developed the social action theory

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Max Weber

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Viewing society as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning develop views about the world, and communicate with one another

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Symbolic interactionism

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A theory that centered to human communication both verbal and nonverbal and to images, symbols significance through language and manner of individual understanding

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Symbolic interactionism

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American philosophy professor

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george herbert mead

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The founder of symbolic interactionism theory

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George herbert mead

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His students gathered his teachings and lectures and published a book titled mind, self, and society in his name

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George herbert mead

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We build up our self-idea by seeing how others see us, we see a reflection of ourselves according to cooley

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Mirror self

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Sees society as an arrangement of interconnected parts that are incongruity to keep up a condition of parity and social equilibrium

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Structural functionalism

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He proposed that all orders experience phases of financial turns of events

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Marxism

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Talcot parson argues that there are two types of family structure

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  1. Nuclear family (only what’s inside a family)
  2. Extended family (three generations living under one roof)
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Three major theoretical perspectives:

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  1. Structural functionalism
  2. Marxism
  3. Symbolic interactionism
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According to emile durkheim (1895) society is an intricate arrangement of interrelated and related parts that cooperate to look other steadiness and that society is held together by shared qualities, dialects, and images

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Socio-cultural

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According to functionalism, the government has four main purposes

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  1. Planning and directing society
  2. Meeting social needs
  3. Maintaining law and order
  4. Managing international relations
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Viewed government as a system to impose norms and control conflict

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Functionalism

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Explores the struggle between those in power and those who are not in power within society

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Conflict theory

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Elaborated on some of marx’s concepts, coining the phrase power elite to describe what he saw, as the small grouo of powerful people controls much of society.

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Wright mills

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Coined the term and characterized it with basic premises (1) human beings communicate based on the meanings they attributed to things (2)the attribute meanings are based from our interactions with others and society (3) the meanings are interpreted through a process used by a person based on his/her experience

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Herbert Blumer

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A method of sociological analysis that examines how individuals use everyday conversation and gestures to construct a common sense view of the world

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Ethnomethodology

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A branch of symbolic interactionism, studies how human interactions can make the impression of collective social order despite the absence of common understanding and the existence of opposing perspectives

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Ethnomethodology

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One of the significant symbolic interactionism idea interrelated to work and economy is called as “career inheritance”

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Economic

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Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that examines communication pattern, interpretation and adjustment among individuals relative to the meanings of symbols

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Socio-cultural

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