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What are social sciences?

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Social Sciences studies people in a large group study . studies society as a large group of people. seeing how society works as a whole.

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Psychology

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Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior.

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Psychosocial development stages

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  1. oral
  2. anal
  3. phallic
  4. latency
  5. genital
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Psychoanalysis

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The role of the unconscious mind and early childhood experiences in determining behaviour and thought.

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Humanistic Psychology

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human beings were born with the desire to grow, create and to love, and had the power to direct their own lives.

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Eugenics

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A movement that advocate for improvement of the human society y selective breeding or forced sterilization
Its a latin word for good at birth
It was developed by albert eugenics who sterilized over 2822 unfit individuals

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Left brain/Right brain

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left
- logic, analysis, linear, facts, think in words

right
- creativity, imagination,feelings,daydreaming,

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Linguistics

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the scientific study of language and its structure

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Ableism

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Ableism is discrimination and social prejudice against people with physical or mental disabilities.

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Classism

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is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.

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Sociology

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Focus on the “big picture” in regards to social institutions and our relationships within them

Organizations, institutions, development of society through changing relationships btwn individuals and collective groups

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Anthropology

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Anthropology is the study of the origin and development of human societies and cultures

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Culture and how it can change

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  • Cultural change can have many causes, including the environment, technological inventions, and contact with other cultures.
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Cultural anthropology and sub-types

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archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology.

Culture is a way of living that is learned over time and shared by
people.

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Physical anthropology and sub-types

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Primatology
Genetics
forensics

physical anthropology
study humans evolution and human biology.

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Paleoanthropology

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Paleoanthropology is the study of human evolution through the fossil and archaeological records

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Ethnology

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the study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them.

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Natural selection

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Darwin
Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success.

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Macro and Microsociology

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Macro Study of society as a whole, studies population and social systems like religion.
It’s both structural function and conflict theory

Micro studies the roles and interaction of an individual or small group of people. They can study the role and belief of one person.
It s a symbolic interaction theory.

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Self-actualization

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  • a concept regarding the process by which an individual reaches his or her full potential.
  • after reaching basic needs then you reach it.
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Social institutions

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social institutions are established norms and systems that support each society’s survival

groups that have come together for common purpose. Govern behaviours and expectations of individuals (family, education, religion, government)

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Anticipatory Socialization

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  • non-group members learn to take on the values and standards of groups that they aspire to join.
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Rites of passage

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  • a ceremony
  • ritual
  • passage to ones stage of life to another.
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Polygamy

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A husband or wife has multiple relationships at once.
They can legally have 2 or more members.

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polyandry
One women and 2 or more men
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monogamy,
Its having a relationship or marriage with only one person One men or one women or same sex marriage
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polygyny
One men and 2 or more women
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Matrilineal,
A kinship system in which people trace their ancestry through their mothers.
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patrilineal
A kinship system in which people trace their ancestry through their fathers.
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bilateral
a kinship system in which people trace their ancestry through both their mothers and fathers
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Prejudice
prejudice refers to thoughts and feelings about those groups (you believe)
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Discrimination
discrimination refers to actions toward a group of people.
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Bias
a personal and often unreasoned judgment for or against one side.
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Racism
racism is a type of prejudice that involves set beliefs about a specific racial group. racism is based on the notion that some races are superior to others
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CNN Doll experiment
- kids are given a choice a light skin or dark skin doll and asked which is more beautiful and they always pick the light skin one.
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Ethnocentrism
- the attitude that one's own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others.
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Stereotyping
oversimplified ideas about groups of people (many people believe)
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true at least in part as a result of a person's belief or expectation
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Family types: Blended, extended, nuclear
blended - a family consisting of a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships. extended- a family that extends beyond the nuclear family, including grandparents, aunts, nuclear - a couple and their dependent children.
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Scapegoating
the act of blaming a person or group for something bad that has happened or that someone else has done
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Genocide
intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part
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Gender
Cultural and social difference constructed difference, almost everything in our social life is gendered.
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Values
What is accepted and what is not
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Norms
How people should behaviors and act
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Symbols
something that stands and represents for or suggests something else.
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Classism
systemic or personal actions that discriminate against persons according to their socio-economic level.
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Id, ego, superego
Id- Our most basic desires. The “I WANT” part of our unconscious mind. The ID is pleasure driven and impulsive. Ego- This is the rational “I THINK” part of our unconscious mind. It is the part of our mind that makes the decisions. Superego- This is our conscience. This is the “I SHOULD” part of our unconscious mind. This is our morals and values.
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Two-spirited
- having both a masculine and a feminine spirit - indigenous term.
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Logotherapy
- helps people find meaning of patients life.
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Lineages
A group of people tracing they ancestors.
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Clans
A group of several lineages in a patrilineal society in which people are related but cannot always trace exact relationships.
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Social Darwinism
Theory that human evolved from apes Every generation they are more people that produced that will survive People with heritable traits are more likely to survive. When reproductive isolation happens they are new spices that will form. Survival of the fittest Helping the poor is wrong because they would die off if left to nature.
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Charles Darwin
associate with the natural selection theory. wrote a book called On the Origin of Species
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Margaret Mead
- American cultural anthropologist
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The Leakey’s/Louis Leaky
suggested that the paranthropus Bosed was the first hominin species to use stone tools Louis Leakey was a Kenyan -british paleoanthropologist and archaeologist
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Selam
3.3 million years old Discovered in 2000 in Ethiopia by Zeresenay Alemsaged. Oldest skeleton found to date.
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Lucy
3.3 - 2.1 million years old Discovered in 1924 by Raymond Dart in South Africa Similar to A. Afarensis but Africanus had a larger cranium housing a larger brain and smaller teeth.
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Karl Marx
He is associated with the conflict theory He is the author the communist manifesto He was living in London when he saw people working in factories with little pay and under poor conditions.
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Auguste Comte
French philosopher born in 1798 First to use the term sociology which is a systematic study of society. Term positivism - scientific evidence to study causes of behavior.
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Jane Goodall
- primatologist - the first person to observe chimpanzees creating and using tools. - Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, in 1960. - first chimp she studied David Greybeard.
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Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist - associated with the Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory
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Oxana
She left outside in the cold at age 3 and went to live with the dogs for 5 years and over the years behavior like a dog and did everything that a dog dose.
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Ivan Pavlov
-Nobel prize winner -Russian scientist -Started his career by studying --digestive system -His researched should that dogs will drool as soon as you put food into their mouths - Creates parlors theory of classical conditioning
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Sigmund Freud
- his known for his study on human consciousness - id, ego and superego.
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Carl Jung
- a student of freuds - he believed achieving balance within the psyche would allow people to reach their true potential.
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Erik Erikson
- he believed that human continued to grow. - he was influenced by freuds stages. - Erikson’s 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development
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B.F Skinner
- observed the behaviours - studies the reward and punishment can influence behaviour, which known as operant conditioning. operate condition - when you do something bad you will get punished.
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Herbert Spencer
he applied the darwin theory to people in society.
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Saira Rao and Regina Jackson
- known for the documentary race to dinner. - they invited a white women to dinner and asked them if they were racist.
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Victor Frankl
- his therapy came from him growing up in a Nazi concentration camp. - people who had hope were more tend to survival then people who lost hope. - his form of therapy was called logotherapy.
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Abraham Maslow
- interested in studying people - he studied what he called self-actualizing. - he wanted to know they people achieved they full status. - hierarchy of needs.
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Elizabeth Loftus
- he study was false memories. - repress memories are rarely existed. - memories can be changed and have big holes in them that can be changed by conversation or a suggestion.
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Winston Blackmore
- leader of a polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saint religious group. - lived in British Columbia.
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Warren Jeffs
- A religious leader - Convicted multiple sex crimes - His a leader of a church. - he is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
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Jane Elliot
- blue eye and brown eye experiment. - assassination of Martin Luther King Jr inspired her to do this
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The Bhil people of India
The bhil people are an agricultural and patrilineal society. The lineage of the bhil people is a group of men descended from a common ancestor who they all related to, and they all hold land rights and can make marriage decisions.
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Desmond Cole
- start of documentary the skin were in. - his work on racism exist in Canada.
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Conflict theory
Conflict theory agrees the institute were originally develop to meet basic needs but over time it has to come to serve the interest of a small group society ( the wealthy)
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Functionalist theory
Institutions work together to serve the basic needs of society and for the common good. They work together to provide stability and social order Like school and politics
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Freud’s 5 Stages of Personality Development
1. oral 2. anal 3. phallic 4. latency 5. genital
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Erikson’s 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development
1.Trust vs. Mistrust 2.autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt 3.Initiative vs. Guilt 4.Industry vs. Inferiority 5.Identity vs. Role Confusion 6.Intimacy vs Isolation 7.Generativity vs. Stagnation 8.Ego-Integrity vs. Despair
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Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
species can change over time, that new species come from pre-existing species, and that all species share a common
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The Learning Theory
Family and media are primarily responsible for socializing us to be prejudicial and discriminatory Family passes on prejudicial views
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3 Stages of a rite of passage
1. Segregation- the person is undergoing the passage, and is separated from the rest of society. 2. Transition- this is the passage and this can last hours, weeks or months, in this stage the person is becoming they new self. 3. Incorporation and reintegration- is welcomed back to society, they have a new status in society and can sometimes have tattoos, body paint or something new.
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6 Agents of Socialization
. Family .School . Peer groups . Media .Workplace . Religion
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Piaget’s 4 stages of Cognitive development
1. Sensorimotor stage 2. Preoperational stage 3. operational stage 4. Formal operational stage
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
1. physiological 2. safety 3. love/ belonging 4. self esteem 5. self- actualization
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4 forces that shape human behaviour
1. FAMILY 2. GENDER 3. CULTURE 4. MEDIA
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4 Theories on What Causes Prejudice and Discrimination
Learning theory competition theory frustration theory Ignorance theory
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classical conditions
when a dog sees food it will drool. when they see a bell they will not. when they see a bell and food it will drool. next time they see the bell they will associate the bell with food. behaviors are learned by connecting a neutral stimulus with a positive one

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