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Midterm Flashcards

1
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Tool to grasp the complexity of the phenomenon it represents and a means to explore its many other dimensions hidden by its normative use

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Society as a Concept

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Society is seen as an outcome of multiple interactions of people upon which succeeding interactions are made meaningful and possible

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Society as a Facticity

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3
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The quality of having unlimited or very great power

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Omnipotence

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4
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State of knowing everything

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Omniscience

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5
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State of being widespread or constantly encountered

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Omnipresence

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6
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Allows us to see opportunities where there are none and create one if need be

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Sociological Awareness

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7
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According to him that the sociological perspective enjoins us to see the coordinates of our social maps.

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C. W Mills

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Society is seen as a complex system whose parts function and work in harmony, bringing stability in the process

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Structural Functionalism

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9
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Considered the founding father of modern sociology

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Robert Merton

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10
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The intended, recognized, and obvious and is explicitly states and understood by participants in the relevant action

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Manifest Function

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Unintended and unrecognized Function

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Latent Function

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12
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Undesirable effects of a social pattern on the operation of society, may result bu society has the ability to adjust

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Social Dysfunction

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Focuses on forces in society that promote competition and change, assumes that society is an arena

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Conflict Theory

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Focuses on how people make sense of the world on how they experience and define what they and others are doing

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Symbolic Interactionism

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15
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Essential in the everyday conduct of the member of the society

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Rules

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16
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These are easily seen and are observed and obeyed

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Written Rules

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17
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Rules that aren’t necessarily laws but follow them on a day to day basis

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Unwritten Rules

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He said that culture is that complex whole including knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits

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Edward B. Taylor

19
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Refers to the mass produced and mass mediated forms of culture that emerged in the 20th century

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Mass Culture

20
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Occurs when a material culture innovates in the society but non-material culture remains stagnant

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Cultural Lag

21
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Shared way of living of a subgroup in a society

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Subculture

22
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Type of subculture which rejects some of the norms acceptable to the general public

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Counterculture

23
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Process of passing culture from one generation to the next

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Enculturation

24
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Members of society learn the behavior that is acceptable to the society and individuals internalize these values and beliefs

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Socialization

25
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Learning culture of another society

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Acculturation

26
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Individuals who are not able to undergo the socialization process

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Feral Children

27
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Means of communicating ideas or feelings by use of signs, sounds, gestures, etc.

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Language

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Comprised of signs, symbols, gestures with meanings shared by society differing from one culture to the next

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Language

29
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American Linguist and anthropologist who is well known for his study on the Piraha people of the Brazilian Amazon jungle

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Daniel Everett

30
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Refers to anything that is being passed down from one generation to another

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Heritage

31
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The legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group that are inherited from past generations

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Cultural Heritage

32
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Material forms of cultural heritage

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Tangible Heritage

33
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Can be easily transported forms of cultural heritage

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Movable Cultural Heritage

34
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These includes structures such as monuments, buildings, etc.

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Immovable Cultural Heritage

35
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Considered as part of a group’s culture such as reefs, terraces, etc.

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Natural Heritage

36
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Represents the non material aspect of cultural heritage

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Intangible Heritage

37
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Aid in the preservation of one’s cultural heritage, a cycle

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Heritage Cycle

38
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English historian and Archaeologist who has worked for the English Heritage and the Museum of London

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Simon Thurley

39
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Tendency to believe that one’s culture is superior from other cultures

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Ethnocentrism

40
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German-American Anthropologist introduced the cultural relativisim

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Franz Boas

41
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Suggests that every culture is equal

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Cultural Relativism

42
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Insider’s perspective where studying cultural groups and practices leads to a comprehensive understanding

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Emic Perspective

43
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Used when a researcher uses an outsider’s or an observer’s perspective in understanding things

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Etic Perspective

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