UCSP MST Flashcards
-Collection of people in a specific territory who share the same norms, values, and culture
-these people work together, with the guidance of social norms to maintain harmony
-SINGLE FUNCTIONING ORGANISM
SOCIETY
Differences in social behaviors that different cultures exhibit around the world
Cultural variations and social differences
-physical attributes-body characteristics notably sex organ which are distinct in majority of individuals
-biologically determined by genes and hormones
-relatively fixed/constant through time and across cultures
SEX
-composite of attitudes of men and women (masculine/feminine)
-learned through family, education, religion, and is an acquired identity
-it is socialized
GENDER
-Chromosome structures, xx for female and xy for male
-hormone production and internal and external reproductive organ
Biological differences
Two types of gender
1, masculine
2. Feminine
Culturally assigned tasks and activities to sexes
Gender roles
Category that groups people into similar economics, social, cultural, and political status
SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS
Wealthy industrials with big corporations andowners of large plantation of haciendas
Upper, 10%
Proffesionals, skilled, and semi skilled workers in offices, factories, or farms
Middle, 20%
Laborers and unskiledd workers
Lower, 70%
-Owner of production of monetary, land, and technological capital
-dont work but accumulate wealth
Bourgeois
-Do not own the means of production
-must work and sell their labor power in order to survive
Proletariat
Refers to financial resources that and individual possesses
Economic capital
Collection of an individuals social relations with people that may help in the future
Social capital
Combination of knowledge, behaviors, and skills that an individual acquired to demonstrate once cultural completence and determine ones social status in society
Cultural capital
SOURCE of knowledgelike books, and computers
Material
Academic degrees, job, titles, religious titles, and other social roles
Non-material
Specific group of people with similar characteristics and a distinct cultural identity
Ethnic group
The shared culture of these groups, which includes cultural heritage, language or dialect, religion, traditions and rituals, norms, values, and beliefs
Ethnicity
Socially constructed category attributec to people woth the same biological traits or attributes
Race
4 major race in the world
Caucasian
Mongloid
Negroid
Australoid
Outdated historical grouping of various people
Australoid
-Constructed based on cultural traits
-Diverse
Ethnicity
-based on biological characteristics on biological characteristics
-more unitary or singular
Race
Ethnic groups with their own language
Ethnolinguistic groups
1. Ifugao
2. Itneg
3. Kalinga
System of beliefs, worldviews, and practices related to humanity and spirituality
RELIGION
Belief that spiritual forces reside in natural elements of the physical world
Animism
Social implications of diverse ethnicities
Prejudices
Stereotypes
Minority groups
Interaction of an individuals health condition with environmental factors that cause difficulties in performing activities
Disability
Individuals specific abilities, physical intellectual, or behavior are different from established average of typycial qualities
Exceptionality
To differentiate between those with exceptionalities and without
Non- exceptionality
Societal members use this to describe the different types of exceptionalities
Labels
Persons belonging or membership to a specific nation
Nationality
Legal process of acquiring citizenship and nationality from a different state
Naturalization
Granted to people who are persecuted by their own states because of their ethnicity, naitonality, religion, and race
Political asylum
Social science discipline expert
Dr. Mercedes Concepcion
Set of activities and actions that are used to hold power in a government
Politics
Societies way of life expressed through material and nonmaterial aspects
Culture
Set of physical objects made by the members of a society
Material culture
Intangible aspects of culture like ideas
Non-material culture
Understanding of society on what is good and just
Values
Convictions that people hold to be true.
Beliefs
Defined as how we behave according to expectations of society
Norms
Recognizable meanings shared by societies, such as gestures, signs, signlas, and words
Symbol
Form of communication that can either be spoken in a nonverbal action,
Language
Society functions as a whole because of the contributions of its seperate structures
Structural functionalism
Social inequality is one of the basic characteristics of society
Conflict preservative
Product of the intersctions of an individual with other people
Interactionist perspective
Traits of behavior shared by all human cultures
Cultural universal
Immersing oneself in a particular society, and culture, even at birth
Socialization
Judging another culture based on how it compares to ones culture
Ethnocentrism
Belief that other cultures are better than ones own culture
Xenocentrism
Attitude of having an open mind to view the culture of others using the context of that culture
Cultural relativism
