LESSON 2 UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Question 1

A group of individuals sharing a common culture, geographical location, and government.

Answer 1

Society

Question 2

One of the important bases that define and influence a society

Answer 2

Culture

Question 3

Are shared ideas, norms, and principles that provide members of society.

Answer 3

Values

Question 4

The standards that pertain to what is right or wrong, good or bad, desirable and undesirable

Answer 4

Values

Question 5

Are shared rules of conduct that determine specific behavior among society members

Answer 5

Norms

Question 6

Are the norms that may be violated without serios consequences

Answer 6

Folkways

Question 7

Are norms with moral connotation

Answer 7

Mores

Question 8

Norms that are legally enacted and enforced

Answer 8

Laws

Question 9

The lifelong process of forging identity through social interaction

Answer 9

Socialization

Question 10

Refers to the process by which an individual earns or acquires the important aspects of his or her society’s culture.

Answer 10

Enculturation

Question 11

Relates culture with overall context of social order

Answer 11

Sociology

Question 12

Examines culture as a vital aspect of society.

Answer 12

Political Science

Question 13

Current and future human and forest landscape conditions are influenced by the cumulative, unfolding history of socio-ecological interactions.

Answer 13

Historical Perspective

Question 14

Members share sets of rules and values and maintains a balance harmonious system.

Answer 14

Structural-Functional Perspective

Question 15

This is a framework for building theory that envisions society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change

Answer 15

Social-conflict Perspective

Question 16

This paradigm is theoretical framework that envisions society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals

Answer 16

Symbolic-Interaction Perspective

Question 17

Characteristics / Aspects of Culture

Answer 17

1. Dynamic, Flexible, & Adaptive
2. Shared & Contested
3. Learned through socialization or enculturation / Transmitted through socialization / Enculturation
4. Patterned social interactions
5. Integrated and at times unstable
6. Requires language and other forms of Communications

Question 18

Culture is diverse and plural. This simply means that culture interacts and changes.

Answer 18

Dynamic, Flexible, & Adaptive

Question 19

Culture is diverse and plural. This simply means that culture interacts and changes.

Answer 19

Dynamic, Flexible, & Adaptive

Question 20

It is not a matter of race, it is learned, not carried in our genes.

Answer 20

Culture

Question 21

The various parts of a culture being interconnected

Answer 21

Holism