UCSP L1 Flashcards
Anthropology
It is defined as customary beliefs, social forms, and traits that defines a specific racial, religious or social group.
Culture
is a powerful defining characteristic of human groups that shapes our perceptions, behaviors, and relationships.
Culture
Characteristics of Culture
-Continuous and cumulative
-Transmitted among members of society
-Learned
-Shared
-Varies from society to society
Anthropology is a study of?
Culture
Sociology is a study of?
Society
Political Science is a study of?
Politics
Derived from Greek, the word anthropos means “human” and “logy” refers to the “study of.”
Anthropology
Quite literally, anthropology is the _____. It is the study of everything and anything that makes us.
study of humanity
Is the study of human similarities and differences and their impact on a wide range of social phenomena.
Sociocultural Anthropology
investigates ways humans organize themselves, cultural practices, belief systems, what constitutes meaning and value, and how material and intellectual resources are allocated both within and across culture.
Sociocultural Anthropology
is the study of the past and present evolution of the human species and is especially concerned with understanding the causes of present human diversity
Biological Anthropology
Pertains to a group of individuals involved in social interaction or sharing the same geographical or social territory.
Sociology
study the material remains of present and past cultural systems to understand the technical, social and political organization of those systems and the larger cultural evolutionary process that stand behind them.
Archaeologists
Comes from the Latin word “Socius” which means comrade, companion, or friend.
Sociology
Greek word “Politika” which means
affairs of the cities.
-It is an organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or supernatural. (e.g.
Islam, Christianity, Judaism, etc.)
Religion
Comes from the Greek word “Politika” which means affairs of the cities.
Political Science
Examples of Human Cultural Variation
Religion
Nationality
Ethinicity
It refers to the difference in social behaviors that different cultures exhibit around the world. What may be considered good etiquette in one culture may be considered bad etiquette in another.
Human cultural variation
Refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance over a human community.
Political Science
Smaller cultural groups (ethnic groups) that share the specific environments, traditions, and histories that are not necessarily subscribed to the mainstream culture.
Ethnicity
“group”, “nation”, people*
Ethnos
It is the legal relationship that binds a person and a country. It allows the state to protect and have jurisdiction over a person. (e.g. Filipino, Japanese, American, etc.)
Religion
In legal terms, it refers to a principle where citizenship is determined by place of birth.
jus soli
is a Latin term that translates to “right of soil.”
Jus Soli
(right of blood) is the legal principle that, at birth, an individual acquires the nationality of his/ her natural parent/s.
Jus Sanguinis
is the position of an individual or group on the socioeconomic scale, which is determined by a combination of social and economic factors such as income, amount and kind of education, type and prestige of occupation, place of residence, and —in some societies or parts of society-ethnic origin or religious background.
Socio-economic status
Causes of Social change
- Natural Disasters
- Ethnic Diversity and the distribution of natural resources
- Reform and revolutionary movement
- Charismatic leadership
-It is the transformation of social institutions over time.
Social change
Sources of Change in Social Change
- innovation
2.Diffusion
3.Discoveries
is the social creation and institutionalization of new ideas.
Innovation
is the spread of innovations from one social setting to another. It occurs when one group borrows something from another group such as norms, values, food, clothing, and other innovation.
Diffusion
when people reorganized existing elements of the world they had not noticed before or learned to see in a new way.
Discoveries
Refers to the set of attitudes and practices that individuals adhere to in relation to the political systems and actors within his or her society.
Political Identity
