Lesson 2: Culture, Society & Politics

Question 1

Is a collection of interacting individuals sharing the same way of life and living in the same territory

Answer 1

Society

Question 2

They have so many diverse characteristics — customs, religion, politics, economies, families, schools and etc.

Answer 2

Society

Question 3

Are bound together by a sense of common identity

Answer 3

Society

Question 4

What is society?

Answer 4

Individuals bound together by sense of common identity.

Question 5

What are the foundations of Society

Answer 5

Status

Roles

Question 6

A position in society; people usually behave in accordance with their statuses

Answer 6

Status

Question 7

Every status has a right and obligation. Every status carries a role, the expectation of what individuals should do in accordance with their particular status

Answer 7

Role

Question 8

A status is _______ while a role is _______, shaped by specific situations & persons

Answer 8

Static

Dynamic

Question 9

What are the two types of Status?

Answer 9

Ascribed Status

Achieved Status

Question 10

Type of status that pertains to gender and race as well as age; we are born male or female or into some racial group.

Answer 10

Ascribed Status

Question 11

A type of status that is attained through our own actions. A result from what we do and we earn them in some way.

Answer 11

Achieved Status

Question 12

Is the complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, 
attitudes, norms, artifacts, symbols, 
knowledge and everything that a 
person learns and shares as a member 
of society

Answer 12

Culture

Question 13

What are the three components that go together that make up culture?

Answer 13

Ideas
Activities
Artifacts

Question 14

It is shared, learned and symbolic

Answer 14

Culture

Question 15

2 types of culture

Answer 15

Material Culture

Non-Material Culture

Question 16

A kind of Culture that are physical objects / artifacts that people create

Answer 16

Material Culture

Question 17

Sociologist use this term to refer to the physical objects of material Culture

Answer 17

Artifacts

Question 18

Example of Material Culture

Answer 18

Clothing, Books, buildings & utensils

Question 19

A kind of culture from the abstract human creations

Answer 19

Non-Material Culture

Question 20

Example of Non-Material Culture

Answer 20

Ideas, Beliefs, rules, family patterns

Question 21

What are the six aspects of culture?

Answer 21

Symbol
Language 
Values
Norms
Folkways
Mores

Question 22

What are the characteristics of culture?

Answer 22

Culture is learned
Culture is dynamic
Culture is integrated 
Culture is shared
Culture is based on symbols

Question 23

refers to the tendency of each society
to place its own culture patterns at the
center of things.

Answer 23

Ethnocentrism

Question 24

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 24

An attitude where we believe that our own culture is superior than others

or

Universal human reaction found in all known societies

Question 25

is the idea that all norms, beliefs, and values are dependent on their cultural context and should be treated as such. Also a research method

Answer 25

Cultural Relativism

Question 26

What is Culture Relativism

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It promotes greater appreciation of the cultures one encountered along the way.

Question 27

A belief that one's own products, styles or ideas are inferior to those which originage elsewhere

Answer 27

Xenocentrism

Question 28

What is Xenocentrism?

Answer 28

A preference for the foreign

Question 29

``` The fear of losing identity, suspicion, of other group’s activities, aggression, and the desire to eliminate the presence of other group to secure a presumed purity. ```

Answer 29

Xenophobia

Question 30

What is Xenophobia?

Answer 30

Dislike of or prejudice againts people from othrr countries

Question 31

Refers to the theory, art and practice of the government

Answer 31

Politics

Question 32

The ________ is a concrete example of a political institution

Answer 32

Government

Question 33

Is manifested in the acquisition of statuses and functions

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Power

Question 34

A status granted to individuals or institutions to properly run the government and implement the rule in a society.

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Power

Question 35

What are the three branches of the Government?

Answer 35

Executive Legislative Judiciary

Question 36

The branch of the government where they have the right to execute governance and implement laws. The president, Vice President & Cabinet Members belongs in this branch.

Answer 36

Executive

Question 37

They make & pass the law for the executive power to implement. Senators and Congressmen are part of this branch.

Answer 37

Legislative

Question 38

They are tasked to interpret laws in accordance with society's standards and norms. The Chief Justice and Associate Justice belongs to this government branch.

Answer 38

Judiciary