LESSON 2: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: SOCIETY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Question 1

It highlights the EXTERNAL INFLUENCES that facilitate or constrain human actions.

Answer 1

SOCIOLOGY

Question 2

It underlines the role of CULTURAL STRUCTURES in organizing HUMAN INTERACTIONS.

Answer 2

ANTHROPOLOGY

Question 3

It focuses on POWER RELATIONS and how this produces layered modalities of opportunities among social actors.

Answer 3

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Question 4

It is the study of SOCIETY, SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS, social life, social class, and social institutions.

Answer 4

SOCIOLOGY

Question 5

Refers to a person’s SPECIFIC ECONOMIC and POLITICAL LOCATION.

Answer 5

SOCIAL MAP

Question 6

An AMERICAN SOCIAL CRITIC who argued that individuals can still transcend the limitations posed by their respective social locations THROUGH SOCIAL IMAGINATION.

Answer 6

CHARLES WRIGHT MILLS (1959)

Question 7

It is a QUALITY OF MIND that allows a thinker to understand the relationships between the troubles of individual people and the general social issues.

Answer 7

SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION

Question 8

Where was sociology born? Name three countries.

Answer 8

It was born in Europe (Germany, England, and France)

Question 9

A FRENCH PHILOSOPHER, often called the “FATHER OF SOCIOLOGY”. He believed that all societies develop and progress through the following stages.

Answer 9

AUGUSTE COMTE

Question 10

Comte viewed the science of sociology as consisting of two branches; what are these two branches?

Answer 10

Dynamic and Statics

Question 11

A French Philosopher AND SOCIOLOGIST who stressed the importance of studying social facts (social phenomenon), or patterns of behavior characteristic of a particular group

Answer 11

EMILE DURKHEIM

Question 12

A GERMAN SOCIOLOGIST who argued that sociologists must also consider people’s interpretations of events - not just the events themselves.

Answer 12

MAX WEBER

Question 13

It allows sociologists to mentally PUT THEMSELVES INTO “the other person’s shoes” and thus obtain an “interpretive understanding” of the meanings of individuals behaviors..

Answer 13

VERSTEHEN

Question 14

A GERMAN PHILOSOPHER AND ECONOMISTS who believed that societies GREW AND CHANGED as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production.

Answer 14

KARL MARX

Question 15

It is an economic system characterized by PRIVATE or corporate ownership of goods and the means to produce them, grew in many nations.

Answer 15

CAPITALISM

Question 16

It is an economic system under which there is NO PRIVATE OR CORPORATE OWNERSHIP.

Answer 16

COMMUNISM

Question 17

It is a social theory that posits that society is in a state of perpetual conflict because of competition for limited resources.

Answer 17

CONFLICT THEORY

Question 18

A 19th-century Englishman who compared society to a living organism with interdependent parts (Functionalist Theory)

Answer 18

HERBERT SPENCER

Question 19

An American Sociologist whose theory of socialization was called the “looking-glass self.”

Answer 19

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

Question 20

They produced the functional principles of Symbolic Interactionism Theory.

Answer 20

GEORGE MEAD, HERBERT BLUMER, AND CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

Question 21

-It is the study, analysis, and description of humanity’s past and present.
- Study of humankind

Answer 21

ANTHROPOLOGY

Question 22

It occurs when resources given in a society are distributed unevenly.

Answer 22

SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Question 22

They often seek to promote understanding between groups by “Translating” each cultured to the other.

Answer 22

ANTHROPOLOGIST

Question 23

A research design or a specific research method where people are observed in their natural environmental in a formal research setting.

Answer 23

ETHNOGRAPHY

Question 24

Means a range of different societies or people of different origins, religions.

Answer 24

CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Question 25

Refers to the gaps between the people as measured by the presence or absence of certain socially desirable traits.

Answer 25

SOCIAL DIVERSITY

Question 26

It is the systematic study of government and politics.

Answer 26

POLITICA SCIENCE

Question 27

The determining factors in politics.

Answer 27

Power and Resources

Question 28

They are engaged in revealing the relationship underlying political events and conditions from the world of politics.

Answer 28

POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Question 29

They are forms of interaction meditated by the use and deployment of authority and political influence.

Answer 29

POWER RELATIONS

Question 30

Who is the father of political science.

Answer 30

ARISTOTLE