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M2: The Concept of Society and Culture Flashcards

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Means companion in Latin?

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‘Societas’

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Refers to all people collectively regarded as constituting a community of related, interdependent individuals living in a definite place, following a certain mode of life (Ariola, 2012)

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Society

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Groups in reciprocal relationships, interacting with one another, doing life activities, help each person to accomplish his interest with his fellow

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Functional Definition

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Total social heritage of folkways, mores and institutions; of habits, sentiments and ideals

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Structural Definition

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(Reasons people live together as a society) Depends on our parents by their care, support, and protection

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For Survival

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(Reasons people live together as a society) People flock together for emotional warmth and belongingness

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Feeling of Gragariousness

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(Reasons people live together as a society) Different professions organize themselves into societies to promote and protect their own professions

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Specialization

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Complex whole which consists of knowledge, beliefs, ideas, habits, attitudes, skills, abilities, values, norms, and other capabilities of man (E.B. Taylor)

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Culture

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These are acquired, learned, and socially transmitted by man from one generation to another through language and living together as members of society (Arcinas, 2016)

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Culture

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Everything that people have, thinks, and does as members of a society

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Concept of Culture

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Anything that is used to give meaning to the culture

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Symbol

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System of words and symbols used to communicate with other people

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Language

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Storehouse of Culture (Arcinas, 2016)

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Language

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Application of knowledge and equipment to ease the task of living (Arcinas, 2016)

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Technology

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Use the shared system of values to decide what is good and bad

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Values

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Faith of an individual

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Beliefs

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Specific standards to guide appropriate behavior (Arcinas, 2016)

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Defines and tells us things not to do

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Proscriptive Norm

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Devines and tells us things to do

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Prescriptive Norm

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Physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture

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Material Culture

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Nonphysical ideas that people have about their culture

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Non-material Culture

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Imitate the doings of the people, values, attitude, language in their social environment

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Taken from the form of formal (learns from school) or informal (watching, reading, or interactions) teachings

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Indoctrination

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values , beliefs, and attitude of other people are acquired through conditioning

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Conditioning

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Same culture may take place in two or more different places

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Parallelism

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Behavioral patterns that pass back and forth from one culture to another

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Takes place when two ore more cultures are merged into one culture

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Convergence

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When people break away from their original culture and develops a different culture of their own

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When individuals incorporate the behavioral patterns of other cultures into their own

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Acculturation

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When the culture of a larger society is adopted by a smaller society

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Assimilation

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Larger and smaller society are able to respect and tolerate each other’s culture

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Accommodation

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Finding a new place or an object, artifact, or anything that exists

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Creative mental process of devising, creating, and producing something new, or original

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Biological fusion of members of different societies

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Amalgamation

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Deliberate infusion of a new culture to another

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Enculturation

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Political and social policy of establishing a colony that would be subject to the governance of the colonizing state

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Colonization

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Aims to change the whole social order and replace the leadership

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Rebellion and Revolutionary

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Why do people live together as a society?

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(1) For Survival, (2) Feeling of Gregariousness, (3) Specialization

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Are customs that we follow but are often not written down. We learn them through intuitions as we grow up

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Are moral norms. If you break them you would be seen as not just in poor taste, but immoral. They’re often linked to religious rules

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Are ‘negative norms’ - things that people find offensive and socially inappropriate if you are caught doing them

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Are norms that are actually defined as being legal or illegal

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