Lesson 3: Society as an Objective Reality

Question 1

comes from Latin word societas (comrade) and socius (friend or ally). It describes a bond or interaction between parties that are friendly or at least civil.

Answer 1

Society

Question 2

Group of people with shared identity, doesn’t necesarrily need a location to be a part of it

Answer 2

Nation

Question 3

A location with a group of people defined by the constituion within it

Answer 3

State

Question 4

Area that has boundaries of jurisdiction under someone

Answer 4

Territory

Question 5

Power to govern independently on internal and external ranges

Answer 5

Sovereignty

Question 6

Ways that each society develop to meet its basic needs

Answer 6

Social Institutions

Question 7

Who said ”Sui generis” or society is unique?

Answer 7

Emile Durkheim

Question 8

Realities that are collectively shared by one or two more people that influences our consciousness

Answer 8

Social facts

Question 9

Who said there should be two apparatuses to be followed by institutions to control its people?

Answer 9

Louis Althusser

Question 10

Mold its members to share the same values and beliefs that a typical member of that society posseses

Answer 10

Ideological Stater Apparatuses (ISA)

Question 11

Coercive institutions that use physical force to make members conform to the laws and forms of society

Answer 11

Repressive State Apparatuses (RSA)

Question 12

Who said that there should be four prerequisites that an institution should follow to be able to persist across time and space?

Answer 12

Talcott Parsons

Question 13

Constantly produce and socialize actors

Answer 13

Social reproduction

Question 14

What are the foir pre-requisites for social reproduction?

Answer 14

AGIL

Question 15

Capacity to adapt to change in structure of society

Answer 15

Adaptation

Question 16

Capability to set goals and mobilize resources

Answer 16

Goal Attachment

Question 17

Achievement of regulation and cooperation for coherence and stability

Answer 17

Integration

Question 18

Constantly produce and socialize actors who shall follow the norms and roles given to them by society

Answer 18

Latency

Question 19

What is one weakness of AGIL?

Answer 19

It does not recognize the weaknesses of institutions

Question 20

Degree to which members of a society are united by shared values and other social bonds.

Answer 20

Social Integration

Question 21

People who perform similar tasks develop a shared or collective consciousness, like machines.

Answer 21

Mechanical Solidarity

Question 22

Division of labor that results in people depending on each other, like the dependence of organ systems on each other in a human body.

Answer 22

Organic Solidarity

Question 23

As division of labor increases, ____ decreases.

Answer 23

collective consciousness