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a complex whole which include knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, customs, and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as member of a society.

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Culture

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tangible things

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Material Culture

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intangible things

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Non- material Culture

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differences in social behaviours that culture exhibit around the world

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Cultural Variation

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the situation where people are discriminated based on economic status, characteristics, and qualities

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Social Differences

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any significant alterations over time in behavior patterns and cultural values and norms

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Social Change

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any political position based on the interests and perspectives of social groups which people identify

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Political Identities

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  • to adapt and integrate
  • establish patterns of acceptable social behaviour
  • conveys and facilitates meaning
  • produce non- made things
  • contributes an over all human satisfaction
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Significance of Culture

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  • serves as a representation of our identity
  • characterize the totality of a territory
  • symbol of political independence
  • an avenue for economic inter-dependence
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SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIETY

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  • consensus and compromise
  • society
  • power and distribution of resources
  • it is an art of government
  • public affair
  • it is academics
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PERCEPTIONS ABOUT POLITICS

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abolition of slavery, industrial revolution.

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SOCIAL CHANGE

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democracy, federalism, political dynasty.

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Political Change

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texting, food, taboos, immigration

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Cultural Change

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a branch of knowledge which deals with the scientific study of man. Comes from Greek word “anthropos” which means human, and “Logia” which means study

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Anthropology

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a systematic study of a state and its government with the men in the community. Comes from Greek word “polis” which means city or state and Latin word “scire” means to know

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Political Science

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scientific study of patterned, shared human behaviour and human interaction. Comes from Latin word “socios” which means companion or associate and Greek word “Logos” which means speech

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Sociology

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  • describe and analyze the biological evolution
  • describe and assess the cultural development
  • describe, explain, and analyze the present-day cultural similarities and differences
  • describe and explain human biological and diversity
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Goals of Anthropology

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  • be immersed in current affairs
  • build an understanding on the politics
  • learn how political activities are organized
  • provide substantially critical and scientific contribution to government and society
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Goals of Political Science

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  • understand ourselves better
  • build better understanding of mankind
  • helps with decision making
  • provides insights into what is going in
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Goals of Sociology

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describes a group of ppl eho share a common territory

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Society

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describes a group of ppl eho share a common territory

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Society

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represents the beliefs, practices, and artifacts

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Culture

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  • earliest form of society
  • small and less that 50 members and is nomadic
  • men are responsible for hunting and women for gathering
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HUNTING & GATHERING SOCIETIES

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  • rely on products obtained through domestication and breeding of animals
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PASTORAL SOCIETIES

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  • rely on cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and plants in order to survive
  • forces to relocate when the sources of the land are depleted
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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES

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  • rely on the use of technology in order to cultivate crops
  • productivity increases, and as long as their plenty of foods, people don’t have to move.
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AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES

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  • they used the advance source of energy to run large machinery which led to industrialization
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INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES

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  • based on services and technology, not production
  • the economy is dependent in tangible goods
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POST- INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES

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a kind of non-material cultural that involves ideas, concepts or any products of mental and intellectual functioning of human mind

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Cognitive Culture

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a kind of non-material culture that involves the expectation, standards, and rules for human behaviour

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Normative Culture

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  • conceptions or ideas of ppl have about what is true around them
  • may be based on common sense, folk, wisdom, religion, science, etc.
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Beliefs

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  • describe what is appropriate or inappropriate in a given society or what is ought to be
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Values

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  • verbal and non-verbal
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Symbols

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  • a shared set of spoken and written symbols
  • known as “Store House of Culture”
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Language

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  • specific rules and standards to guide appropriate behaviour
  • it is the standard behaviour within the society
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Norms

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a form of norm that is also known as customs that ppl follow everyday for the sake of tradition

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Folkways

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a form of norm that control moral and ethical behaviour. It is based on the definitions of right and wrong

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Mores

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a form of norm that the society holds strongly that violating it results in extreme disgust.

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Taboos

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these are codified ethics,and formally agreed, written down, and enforced by an official law enforcement agency.

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Laws

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  • cultures interact and change
  • Culture is adaptive and dynamic, once we recognize problems, culture can adapt again, in a more positive way, to find solutions
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DYNAMIC, FLEXIBLE, AND ADAPTIVE

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  • as we share cultures with others, we are able to act appropriate ways as well as predict how others will act.
  • that doesn’t mean culture is homogeneous
  • it may be challenged by the presence of other cultures
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SHAKED AND MAY BE CHALLENGED

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  • it is not biological, we do not inherit it but learn as we interact in society
  • much of learning culture is unconscious
  • we learn, absorb, and acquire culture
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LEARNED THROUGH SOCIALIZATION OR ENCULTURATION

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  • as a normative system, it has the capacity to define and control human behaviours.
  • it sets the pattern in terms of what is appropriate or inappropriate in a given setting
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PATTERNED SOCIAL INTERACTION

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  • also known as holism or the various parts of a culture being interconnected or interlinked
  • to truly understand a culture, one must learn about all of its parts, not only a few
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INTEGRATED AND AT TIMES UNSTABLE

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  • aw we share culture, we were able to pass it on to the new members
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TRANSMITTED THROUGH SOCIALIZATION AND ENCULTURATION

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  • we need symbols and language to communicate with others in the society
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REQUIRES LANGUAGE AND OTHER FORMS OF COMMUNICATION

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  • the tendency to see and evaluate cultures in terms of one’s race, nation, or culture
  • this rests on the belief of the superiority of one’s own culture or ethnic groups compared to others
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ETHNOCENTRISM

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  • people are highly influenced by the culture or many cultures outside the realm of their society
  • termed by John D. Fullmer
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XENOCENTRISM

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the principle that an individual human’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture

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Cultural Relativism

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