UCSP|LESSON 4-6 Flashcards
What is the earliest writing form in the world which was developed in Mesopotamia?
Cuneiform
Philippine Flag is an example of _________
Political Symbol
What is the food production practices of humans under pastoral
society?
Domesticating animals
What practices do religious and spiritual dance belong to?
Cultural practices
In the Neolithic period, the modern men appeared, which of the following were the accomplishments of human during this period?
They learned to create pots
- Is an object, word, or action that stands for something else without a natural relationship that is culturally defined
- __________ such as gestures, signs, objects, signals, and words help people understand the world
SYMBOL
TYPES OF SYMBOLS (3)
- Cultural Heritage
- Tangible Heritage
- Intangible Heritage
- The legacy of physical artificats and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from the past generation, maintained in the present, and bestowed for the benefit of future generations.
CULTURAL HERITAGE
- Also called Physical artifacts or material cultures
- Which are visible, include the material objects such as artifacts, buildings, landscapes, tools, furniture, bridged and any physical substance used by people which are worthy of preservation for the future
TANGIBLE HERITAGE
- Also called non material
- Consists of abstractions that include knowledge, beliefs, values, rules for behavior, traditional skills
and technologies, religious
ceremonies, performing arts, and storytelling
INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
KINDS OF SYMBOLS(4)
A. Cultural Symbol
B. Social Symbol
C. Political Symbols
D. Economic Symbols
- Manifestations that signify the ideology of a culture that has meaning within that culture (i.e.
religious symbols, museum)
CULTURAL SYMBOL
- Relating to human societies and their modes of organization (i.e.
social classes, social problems, social issues, etc.)
SOCIAL SYMBOL
- Used to represent a political standpoint seen in various media and forms (such as banners, flags,
mottos, etc.)
POLITICAL SYMBOLS
- Used in the production,
distribution, and consumption of goods and services, like currency, market, labor, and other economic activities
ECONOMIC SYMBOLS
Practices(3)
A. Cultural Practices
B. Social Practices
C. Political Practices
- Are the manifestations of a culture or sub-culture, especially regarding
the traditional and customary practices of an ethnic or other cultural group (ie. traditional
medical practices, religious/spirital practices)
CULTURAL PRACTICES
- Refer to everyday practices and the
ways these are typically and habitually performed in a society - Such practices like going to work, cooking, and showering are meaningful to people as parts of their everyday life activities
SOCIAL PRACTICES
- Are common things that are done within a state or country
- It is related to the practices done in
administration, distribution, and
attainment of power, bureaucratic composition (i.e. political dynasties,
“palakasan” system), among others
POLITICAL PRACTICES
- Have classified the different types of societies according to their subsistence into six categories; each of which possesses their own
unique characteristics
SOCIOLOGIST
EARLY SOCIETIES (6)
A. Hunting And Gathering
B. Horticultural And Pastoral
C. Agricultural
D. Neolithic Revolution
(Civilizations)
E. Industrial
F. Post-Industrial
- Oldest and most basic way of economic subsistence
- During the Paleolithic period they lived in small groups with only 20 – 30 members.
- Nomadic
- They live in caves and pit or underground houses protective rock formations, as well as in open-air settlements where possible.
- Men and women are EQUAL
● MEN- Produce simple forms of tools used to hunt for animals and gather plants and vegetation for
food
● WOMEN- Collection of vegetation, berries, and small edible crops
● Shaman or priest – act as leaders of the group - They believed that spirits live in the world
HUNTING AND GATHERING
Produce simple forms of
tools used to hunt for animals and gather plants and vegetation for
food
MEN
- Collection of vegetation,
berries, and small edible crops
WOMEN
act as leaders of the group
Shaman or priest
- Developed around 10, 000 years ago
- Semi-sedentary societies – do notfrequently move
- Small scale farming; making of crafts and trading
- Produce and use simple forms of hand tools to plant crops
- Women are at the center of work and survival in horticultural societies, they are highly valuable to men.
- Polygyny—when a husband has multiple wives—is common.
HORTICULTURAL
– do not frequently move
Semi-sedentary societies
when a husband has
multiple wives
Polygyny
- Animal domestication
- Classified as animal herders and subsist based on the resources provided by their animals.
- Involved in small-scale trading with other groups
- Semi-sedentary groups – they have settlements
PASTORAL
they have settlements
Semi-sedentary groups
- Began 5, 000 years ago
- Started to cultivate wheat, barley, peas, rice, and millet between
8,000 and 3,500 BCE - Farm and domesticate animals
- Produced cultivation tools and developed farming skills
- Started in West Asia moved to east of India
- Wheat, oats, rye and barley spread northward up to Europe
- Plant cultivation also spread to northern China.
- A millet-based system of
agriculture developed along the Huang-He River Basin - Mainland Asia (before 5,000 BCE)
AGRICULTURAL
- Population increased into millions
- Settled permanently and improved the technology for farming
- Surplus of food supply
- Developed specialization
- Money became a form of exchange
- Increase in social inequality
- A civilization is a society in which
large number of people lives in cities. - Its inhabitants are socially stratified and governed by a ruling elite who work through centrally organized political systems called states.
- Large size of land area and population
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
(CIVILIZATIONS)
person who lives in the
city
“civis”
urban community in
which one dwells
“civets”
- Industrial Revolution – from 1780s to 1850s
- Industrialization and transformation of an agricultural society into a
production and manufacturing based one. - Used of advance sources of energy that operated factory machineries
INDUSTRIAL
- Due to the development of information technology and computers
- Focused on the use and application of new information technology
rather than factories - Production centers on computers and other electronic devices that
create, process, and apply ideas and information.
POST-INDUSTRIAL
1) Transfer of labor workforce from manufacturing service
POST-INDUSTRIAL CHARACTERISTICS
2) A significant increase in the number of professional and
technical employment and a decline in the number of skilled and semiskilled workers.
POST-INDUSTRIAL CHARACTERISTICS