SOCSCI COLLATED

Question 1

Primary goal of this type of government is to govern through fair representation and prevent abuses of power.

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Democracy

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The result of this type of government is to satisfy the broadest possible number of public interests, leading to majority rule.

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Democracy

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A centralized form of government that is led by a single party and is often authoritarian in its rule.

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Communism

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States under this type of government replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of economic production.

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Communism

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A system wherein each person benefits from and contributes to the system according to their needs and ability.

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Socialism

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A system wherein citizens communally own the means of production and distribution of goods and services, while a centralized government manages it.

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Socialism

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A type of government wherein a collection of individuals rules over a nation.

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Oligarchy

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A type of government wherein there is a presence of authoritative rulers and an absence of democratic practices or individual rights.

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Oligarchy

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A type of government wherein a small, elite ruling class has power over those in the lower socioeconomic strata.

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Aristocracy

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A power system that appoints a person as head of state for life or until abdication and authority is traditionally passed down through a succession line related to one’s bloodline and birth order within the ruling royal family.

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Monarchy

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A type of monarchy wherein the monarch’s power is limited as outlined in a constitution.

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Constitutional Monarchy

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A form of government wherein a specific religious ideology determines the leadership, laws and customs.

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Theocracy

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A form of government wherein a nation extends its sovereignty over other territories.

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Colonialism

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This type of government often leads to ruling over indigenous populations and exploiting resources.

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Colonialism

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A totalitarian form of government wherein the ruling party recognized no limitations whatsoever on its power, including its citizens’ lives or rights.

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Totalitarianism

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A nation ruled by a single authority with absolute power in a time of upheavals; usually lead the nation’s armed forces, using it to establish their brand of law and order and suppress people’s rights.

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Military Dictatorship

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Father of Sociology; coined the term “positivism”.

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Auguste Conte

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It is the scientific study of social patterns.

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Positivism

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Co-authored the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.

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Karl Marx

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Rejected Conte’s positivism; Social Conflict Theory.

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Karl Marx

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Social Darwinism

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Herbert Spencer

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Laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life.

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Social Facts

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(Type of suicide) Individuals are too close and intimate, which results in the over-integration of individuals into social proof.

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Altruistic Suicide

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(Type of suicide) Man feels like he has no place in society.

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Egoistic Suicide

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(Type of suicide) Occur due to the overregulation in society. (A/N: strict rules)

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Fatalistic Suicide

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(Type of suicide) Due to a certain breakdown of social equilibrium. (A/N: Unexpected change occurred)

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Anomic Suicide

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Proposed the four types of suicide.

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Emile Durkheim

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Proposed the methodology of sociological research.

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Max Weber

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To understand the social world from an insider's point of view.

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Verstehen

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Researchers should be subjective when they represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values; social science may not be subject to the same methods of investigation as the natural world.

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Antipositivism

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Developed the Sociological Imagination.

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Wright Mills

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It is how individuals understand their own and others' pasts in relation to history and social structure.

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Sociological Imagination

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Sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals who make up that society.

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Structural Functionalism

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Proponents of Structural Functionalism.

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Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

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States that society is made up of individuals who must compete for social, political, and material resources.

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Conflict Theory

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Proponent of Conflict Theory

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Karl Marx

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Believed that conflict must lead to revolution and collapse of capitalism.

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Karl Marx

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Did not believe that conflict should lead to revolution; believed that there is more than one cause of conflict aside from economics.

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Weber

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Exchange of meaning through language and symbols; is how people make sense of their social worlds.

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Symbolic Interactionism

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Proponent of Symbolic Interactionism

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George Mead

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Collection of data from subjects who respond to a series of questions about behaviors and opinions, often in the form of a questionnaire.

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Survey

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One-on-one conversation between the researcher and the subject, and is a way of conducting surveys on a topic.

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Interview

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Gathers primary data from the natural environment without doing laboratory experiments or surveys.

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Field work

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Researchers join people and participate in a group's routine activities for the purpose of observing them within that context.

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Participant Observation

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Extended observation of the social perspective and cultural values of an entire social setting; involves objective observation of an entire community.

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Ethnography

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In-depth analysis of a single event, situation, or individuals; researcher examines existing sources, conducts interviews, engages in direct observation, and even direct participant observation.

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Case Study

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Type of experiment wherein research can be controlled.

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Laboratory-based experiment

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Type of experiment wherein generation of data cannot be controlled but the information might be considered more accurate since it was collected without interference or intervention by the researcher.

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Field-based experiment

Question 49

Evaluating and judging another culture based on how it compares to one's own cultural norm. (One's culture is better than others)

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Ethnocentrism

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The practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of one's own culture.

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Cultural Relativism

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Another culture is superior to one's own.

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Xenocentrism

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Culture's standard for discerning what is good and just in society.

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Values

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Standards society would like to embrace and live up to.

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Ideal Culture

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Tenets or convictions that people hold to be true.

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Beliefs

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How to behave in accordance with what society has defined as good, right, and important, and most members of the society adhere to them.

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Norms

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(Type of norm) Established, written rules; are behaviors worked out and agreed upon in order to suit and serve the most people.

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Formal Norm

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(Type of norm) Casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to; learned through observation, imitation, and general socialization.

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Informal Norm

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Norms that embody the moral views and principles of a group.

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Mores