LESSON 2 UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS Flashcards
A group of individuals sharing a common culture, geographical location, and government.
Society
One of the important bases that define and influence a society
Culture
Are shared ideas, norms, and principles that provide members of society.
Values
The standards that pertain to what is right or wrong, good or bad, desirable and undesirable
Values
Are shared rules of conduct that determine specific behavior among society members
Norms
Are the norms that may be violated without serios consequences
Folkways
Are norms with moral connotation
Mores
Norms that are legally enacted and enforced
Laws
The lifelong process of forging identity through social interaction
Socialization
Refers to the process by which an individual earns or acquires the important aspects of his or her society’s culture.
Enculturation
Relates culture with overall context of social order
Sociology
Examines culture as a vital aspect of society.
Political Science
Current and future human and forest landscape conditions are influenced by the cumulative, unfolding history of socio-ecological interactions.
Historical Perspective
Members share sets of rules and values and maintains a balance harmonious system.
Structural-Functional Perspective
This is a framework for building theory that envisions society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change
Social-conflict Perspective
This paradigm is theoretical framework that envisions society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals
Symbolic-Interaction Perspective
Characteristics / Aspects of Culture
- Dynamic, Flexible, & Adaptive
- Shared & Contested
- Learned through socialization or enculturation / Transmitted through socialization / Enculturation
- Patterned social interactions
- Integrated and at times unstable
- Requires language and other forms of Communications
Culture is diverse and plural. This simply means that culture interacts and changes.
Dynamic, Flexible, & Adaptive
Culture is diverse and plural. This simply means that culture interacts and changes.
Dynamic, Flexible, & Adaptive
It is not a matter of race, it is learned, not carried in our genes.
Culture
The various parts of a culture being interconnected
Holism
