L2. RATIONALE OF STUDYING ANTHROPOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY

Question 1

It provides insights into “strange aspects” of the past or even present societies which historians and sociologists find difficult to comprehend and explain

Answer 1

Anthropology

Question 2

It gives us information concerning man’s behavior in relation to his social environment and allows us to reflect on various ways of being humans

Answer 2

Anthropology

Question 3

It teaches respect for other ways of life, while using a variety of cross-cultural human behavior as a mirror from which we can reflect on the things we do in our own culture;

Answer 3

Anthropology

Question 4

It broadens our perspective on how we value our own and others’ culture;

Answer 4

Anthropology

Question 5

It gives us a background on how diverse and complex others’ customs, traditions, and cultural practices are

Answer 5

Anthropology

Question 6

It teaches us the value of religious tolerance, respect for different race, gender, and political background.

Answer 6

Anthropology

Question 7

According to _________ ________, sociology is the scientific study of patterned and shared human behavior.

Answer 7

Joseph Fichter

Question 8

It analyzes human interaction which is essential in understanding man’s cultural makeup. It may focus its attention on all kinds of social interactions: social arts, social relationships, social organizations, social structures, and social processes

Answer 8

Sociology

Question 9

It is the systematic study of a state and its government, with the relationships of men and the community, with relations of men and groups to the state itself, and with the relations of a state with other sovereign states abroad (Palispis, 2009).

Answer 9

Political Science

Question 10

“Change is the only permanent thing in this world” is a quote from _____________.

Answer 10

Heraclitus

Question 11

Social Interaction. (5)

Answer 11

1. Social Organization
2. Social Processes
3. Social Relationships
4. Social Arts
5. Social Structure

Question 12

It is a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects have a common culture

Answer 12

Nation-State

Question 13

It is a concept you developed about yourself that evolves over the course of one’s life.

Answer 13

Personal Identity

Question 14

It is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

Answer 14

Culture

Question 15

It refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

Answer 15

Culture

Question 16

The process by which people come to believe that there is a “right” way to think, express themselves and act.

Answer 16

Socialization

Question 17

ORIENTAL ROOTS

100% Spanish, native-born (in Americas)

Answer 17

Criollo

Question 18

ORIENTAL ROOTS

75% Spanish and 25% Indio

Answer 18

Castizo

Question 19

ORIENTAL ROOTS

50& Spanish and 50% Indio

Answer 19

Mestizo

Question 20

ORIENTAL ROOTS

Pure blooded indigenous person

Answer 20

Cholo