UCSP Flashcards
- The need to pursue and apply knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology. What is this?
- Science
It is the field of human knowledge that deals with all aspects of the group of life of human beings. Unlike hard science theories, social science theories are subject to change with the changes of the human behavior.
Social Science
Focus: Human societies, cultures, and their development over time.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Social Science is not multidisciplinary. True or false?
FALSE
Focus: Social behavior, institutions, and structures.
SOCIOLOGY
“Humans Beings are Social Beings”. True or false?
TRUE
Focus: Political systems, governance, and public policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Focus: Human behavior, cognition, and emotion.
PSYCHOLOGY
Focus: Past events, societies, and historical processes.
HISTORY
What is the complex whole that
includes knowledge, belief,
art, morals, law, custom,
and any other capabilities
and habits acquired by
man as a member of society?
CULTURE
Focus: populations, particularly their size, distribution, and changes over time.
DEMOGRAPHY
What is the way of doing things that is not is from one society is called ____________.
COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR
Focus: The relationship between people and their environments.
GEOGRAPHY
People acquire culture through
learning. Related processes
happen during the learning of
culture- enculturation,
acculturation, and sometimes even
culture shock.
(CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE)
Culture is Learned
the process through which an individual learns about their own culture through exposure and influence from various external sources and forces.
Enculturation
Focus: Production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
ECONOMICS
It occurs when the dominant culture
in a geographic region or a group is
not the original culture of the
individual.
Acculturation
Focus: is the scientific study of language and its structure.
LINGUISTICS
It refers to feelings of
uncertainty, confusion, or anxiety that
people may experience when moving to
a new country or experiencing a new
culture or surroundings.
Culture shock
What is a group of people
sharing customs, laws,
and organizations in a
specific geographical
location?
SOCIETY
What is a feral child?
A human child who has lived isolated from human contract from a very young age, and has no experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and human language.
Something that an individual cannot
possess alone, the patterns of
learned behavior and the results of
behavior are possessed by large
group of people.
(CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE)
Culture is Shared or Transmitted
Every society has a culture of its
own and differs from one another.
Every culture is unique and not uniform; and it varies from time to time.
(CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE)
Culture is Relative
A group of people that are together without culture is called an ________________.
AGGREGATE
It exist as a continuous process
and in its historical growth, it
became cumulative.
(CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE)
Culture is Continuous and
Cumulative
The hallmark of a society is the capacity of people to symbolize. Humans create meaning using symbols. A symbol is an object, word, or action.
(CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE)
Culture is Symbolic
Adaptation occurs through the use of
technology. It changes lives
worldwide. However, it is also
maladaptive because it leaves bad
impact to environment and culture.
(CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE)
Culture is adaptive
and maladaptive
(COMPONENTS OF CULTURE):
- _______________ = Those that are not
physically and empirically tangible. - _______________ = The tangible aspect of culture that members create and use.
- Non-material Culture
- Material Culture
It is a society’s standard of acceptable behavior. It is essential in a society because majority of the people pattern
their way of living after these.
(5 ELEMENTS OF CULTURE)
NORMS