UCSP Flashcards
It is an organized group of interdependent people who share a common territory, language and culture
Society
It is the sum of an individual’s way of life
Example: values, norms, traditions, beliefs, poetry, practices, literature
Culture
It is the theory, art, and practice of government
Politics
Socially-constructed characteristics of being male or female
Gender
Most limiting social label
Gender
Refers to the category of persons who have more or less the same the same socioeconomic privileges in society
Socio economic status
Expression of set of cultural ideas held by distinct ethnic or Indigenous group
Ethnicity
Organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or supernatural, along with associated ceremonial and ritualistic practices
Religion
Refers to the state of being intellectually gifted and/or having physically or mentally challenged conditions concerning personality/behavior/communication/intellect/physical appearance
Exceptionality
It is the legal relationship that binds a person and a country
Nationality
The deliberate avoidance of a food item due to reasons outside of simple dislike or food preference
Food Taboo
Refers to locals who are neither studying nor working
Istambay
A type of science that deals with society and the social interactions within or outside the society
Sociology
Study of human species, it’s immediate ancestors and their cultures
Anthropology
A person who thinks their culture is superior
Ethnocentrism
A person who thinks their culture is inferior
Xenocentrism
Relating other’s culture with their own
Cultural relativism
The process of being hominids
Hominization
When you be walking on 2 legs
Bipedalism
First to use stone tools for survival
Hominoids
Made tools from volcanic stones
Homo habilis
Had the capacity to manipulate their environment in order to survive
Homo erectus
Learned to settle in one place and crafted metals
Homo sapiens
Had the capability of speech/language
Homo Sapeins
Walked upright
Homo erectus
Used tools for hunting and gathering
Homo habilis
It is the oldest and most basic way of economic subsistence
Hunting and gathering societies
Semi-sendetary societies who subsist through small scale farming
Horticultural and pastoral societies
Where humans began to farm and domesticated animals
Agricultural societies
Advanced forms of technology were applied and machineries were invented
Industrial societies
Development of information technology and computers
Post-industrial societies
This society settled permanently and could sustain a thousand population
Agricultural societies
Had equal relationships among men and women
Hunting and gathering societies
Produced and used simple hand tools to plant crops
Horticultural and pastoral societies
Education is the basis of social mobility in this society
Post-industrial societies
Became a production/manufacturing based society
Industrial society
Why do people conform?
- To gain acceptance from other group members
- To achieve goals that the groups intend to reach
- To achieve personal goals that they can reach through group membership
- To ensure the group’s continuation
Are social norms that are significant to the welfare of the group and their cherished values and measures the right and wrong based on moral and ethical standards of the society
Mores
Are social conventions that have become a habit or custom for the society
Folkways
Are classified as formalized norms created and defined by a governing authority
Laws
What theory explains why people deviate
Strain theory
What type of poor accepts culture and social structure (follows society’s goals and society’s methods to achieve those goals)
Hopeful Poor
Which types of poor follows culture but not social structure(follows society’s goals and but not society’s methods to achieve those goals)
Surviving poor/Innovative poor
What type of poor rejects culture but accepts social structure (doesnt follows society’s goals but follows society’s methods to achieve those goals)
Passive poor
What type of poor rejects culture and social structure (doesn’t follow society’s goals and society’s methods to achieve those goals)
Retreating poor
What type of poor rejects society’s culture and social structure in favor of creating a new system
Rebelling poor
This theory states that people visualize themselves through the eyes of others
The “looking-glass self”
This theory states that the self is developed through social interaction
The I and the me
States how a dramaturgicial approach as to how certain social processes can create an impact on the self and the role expectations on an individual
The Mask, the Performance and the Front
Taught since childhood what are acceptable and unacceptable and teaches us morals, values, language, expectations and rituals
Enculturation
Can be classified as the second or third socialization process of an individual
Acculturation
The process whereby people learn the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture
Example: Family
Primary socialization
The process of learning the appropriate behavior as a member of a smaller group within the larger society
Example: School
Secondary Socialization
The process of learning behavior in a social institution or developing one’s social skills
Example: New employee is socialized in his company through orientations
Development Socialization
The way the younger generation socializes with the older generations
Reverse socialization
Refers to the process of socialization in which a person “rehearses” for future positions, occupations and social relationships
Example: a high-school student starts wearing college student type clothes
Anticipatory socialization
The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one’s life
Resocialization
