UCSP Flashcards
people who share a common characteristic or behavior (such as gender or occupation) but do not necessarily interact or identify with one another.
- Social categories
Is a key or core status that carries primarily weight in person’s interaction. It is a status that has special important for social identity, often shaping a person’s entire life
- Master Status
- Are beliefs that we have about what is important, both to us and to society as a whole.
values
- Is the process by which we learn the requirements of our surrounding culture and acquire the behavior and values appropriate for this culture
Enculturation
social groups to which an individual feels he or she belongs. One feels loyalty and respect for these groups(fraternity).
In-Group
- Are shared rules and expectations guiding behavior in a society or group, maintaining social order, defining cultural values and shaping interactions
norms
11 years old and older – theoretical -hypotetical an counterfactual thinking. Abstract logic and reasoning. Strategy and planning become possible. Concepts learned in one context can be applied to another
- Formal operational –
- Focuses more on the acquisition of cultural traits
Enculturation
is the large-scale diffusion of traits and culture that occurs over a long period of time. Alien traits are usually adapted by the less powerful societies because dominant societies have more economic and political power over them
- Acculturation
- Refers to subgroups whose standards come in conflict with and oppose the conventional standards of the dominant culture.
- Counter culture
are specific behavioral standards or rules in a society
norms
- It denotes a unique individual with self descriptions drawn from one’s own biography of the individual.
identity
accept culturally accepted goals but disregard the institutional means to achieve them.
a. Innovators
- It is the process whereby the cultural heritage is socially transmitted from generation to another.
socialization
refers to an objective analysis of one’s own culture – seeing and understanding of one’s beliefs and traditions from his/her own point of view. It also entails not to judge the practices of others based on your own culture; hence, respecting it in their own cultural context.
- Cultural relativism
- is learned behavior passed on from one generation to another. In understanding cultural evolution, we could associate tools and artifacts that the early humans used.
- Cultural evolution
Violation of physical and aesthetic norm and having physical incapacity
- Physical deviance
Refers to the characteristics that other people attribute to an individual.
- Personal Identity
occurs when an individual relocated and adapt the cultural practices of the new environment. Operating at the microlevel, this has the less impact but could pose societal threats to cultural preservation when done at a macro-level
- Transculturation
can be described as a collection of individuals who have regular contact and frequent interaction, mutual influence, and common feeling of belongingness, and who work together to achieve a common set of goals
group
Reject societal goals and the prescribed means to achieve them but try to set up new norms or goals.
d. Rebels
is something that stands for, represents, or signifies something else in a particular culture. It can represent, for example, ideas, emotions, values, beliefs, attitudes, or events. A symbol can be anything. It can be a gesture, word, object, or even an event
- Symbols
Idea 1: deviance varies according to cultural norms
Idea 2: people are deviant because they’re labelled as deviant
Idea 3: defining social norms involves social power
true
can also be exhibited in the form of an “uncritical exaltation of another culture” in which a culture is ascribed “an unreal, stereotyped, and exotic quality foreign
Xenophobia
is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions. It consists of social relations involving authority or power, the regulation of political units, and the methods used to formulate and apply social policy.
- Politics
Violation of physical and aesthetic norm and having physical incapacity
- Sexual deviance
- is the process of developing physical and biological change in a species over a period of time. Natural changes and events forced species to adapt to the environment, while some faced extinction for being unable to do so.
Evolution
- To be or become similar in behavior, form, nature or character
Conformity
are central to our understanding and sharing of culture.
- Symbols
0-2 years old – coordination of senses with motor responses sensory curiosity about the world. Language used for demans and cataloguing. Object permanence is developed
- Sensorimotor – 0-2 years old –
- Culture differ, so that a cultural trait, act or idea has no meaning or function by itself but has a meaning only within a cultural society
- Cultural relativism
Abandon both the cultural goals and the prescribed means to achieve them.
c. Retreatants
- All ________ belong to the class Mammalia and they share all the common features of Mammals
primates
- A feeling of one’s superiority for one’s culture
- Ethnocentrism
– is a social position that is voluntarily acquired and reflects a person’s effort and ability. Ex “a student who just graduated from college and acquired a job” - friend, worker, student, team member, classmate, dormitory resident
- Achieved
placed great emphasis on the unconscious in identity development. According to him, human beings have a basic need to express their sexual tension and aggression, and because there are typically not acceptable mechanisms in society, human beings suffer from anxiety that paves way for the development of neuroticism and other psychological fixations
- Sigmund freud
- Refers to the gap between the material and nonmaterial culture. It can also be the gap between the norm and the backwardness of one to cope up with this
- Culture Lag
is the organization of the biological, psychological, social, cultural, and moral factors which underlie a person’s behavior. It refers to a more or less enduring organization of forces within the individual associated with a complex of fairly consistent attitudes, values, and modes of perception which account, in part, for the individual’s consistency and behavior (Barrnow 1963).
- Personality
- Is the process through which we learn the norms, customs, values and roles of the society from birth through death
Socialization
can vary across time, cultures and even sub-group
norms
– 2-7 years old – symbolic thinking, use of proper syntax and grammar to express concepts. Imagination and intuition are strong, but complex abstract thoughts are still difficult. Conservation is developed
- Preoperational
The cultural characteristics that make up Filipino, including our behaviors and preferences are products of
- Enculturation
refers to a group of individuals that have common features in many aspects. This maybe in terms of their language, culture, mannerisms, actions, ideas, goals, etc.
- Society
is the only source of knowledge in understanding the lifestyle and the developments that occurred in each transitional stage of human evolution.
- Artefactual evidence
Give up cultural goals but follow the prescribed norms.
b. Ritualists
It is an element of culture that define how to behave in accordance with what society has defined as good, right, and important, and most members of the society adhere to them.
- Norms
- The self is something which has a development; it is not there, at birth, but arises in the process of social experience and activity, that is developed in the given individual as a result of his her relations to that process as a whole to other individuals within the society.
George Herbert Mead – stage of the self
is the process where an individual or a group learns culture through experience or observation.
- Enculturation
theorized that human beings begin to face moral issues on their own at the preconventional level, during which kids form their sense of right and wrong. As children grow older, they move on to the succeeding stages of moral development. Ultimately, they apply their moral identities – their sense of right or wrong – within society and in their interpersonal relationships.
- Kohlberg
Except for ______, the bodies of primates are covered with dense hair or fur which provides insulation.
humans
are overarching principles that determine what is considered good or desirable
values