PERSPECTIVE Flashcards
focuses on the study of the full scope of human diversity
Anthropological Perspective
Assumes that mind, body, individuals, society, and the environment interpenetrate, and even define one another.
HOLISM
The idea that we should seek to understand another person’s beliefs and behaviors from the perspective of their culture rather than our own
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
the tendency to view one’s own culture as the most important and correct and as a measuring stick by which to evaluate all other cultures that are largely seen as inferior and morally suspect
ethnocentrism
seek to understand people’s beliefs within the system they have for explaining things.
anthropologists
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES:
FIELDWORK, HOLISM, COMPARISON, RELATIVISM
SOCIOLOGY’S FOUR THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONAL, FEMINISM, SOCIAL CONFLICT, INTERACTIONISM
This theory views society as a system of groups that are not equal, and therefore consistently generate conflict and change
SOCIAL CONFLICT
Views society as traditionally unequal between men and women and strives for equality between the sexes.
FEMINISM
Tends to focus on the language and symbols that help us give meaning to the experiences in our life. They notice that as we interact with the world, we change the way we behave based on the meaning we give social interactions
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
examines the state and its organs and institutions.
political science
encompassing studies of all the societal, cultural, and psychological factors that mutually influence the operation of government and the body politic.
contemporary discipline
In Western political thought, an ancient metaphor by which a state, society, or church and its institutions are conceived of as a biological (usually human) body
BODY POLITIC
