Ucsp Rev Flashcards

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scientific study of man or human
beings.

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Anthropology

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the study of human

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Cultural Anthropology

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are culture,
cultural relativism, fieldwork, human diversity,
holism, bio-cultural focus.

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Anthropological perspectives

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the study of human social
relationships and institutions

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Sociology

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introduces the
discipline of sociology, including its history,
questions, theory, and scientific methods; and
what distinguishes it from other social science
disciplines.

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Sociological perspective

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Three Major Theoretical Perspectives:

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  1. Functionalist perspective
  2. Conflict perspective
  3. Symbolic interaction perspective.
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a social science that deals with
humans and their interactions; it essentially
deals with the large-scale actions of humans,
and group mentality

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Political Science

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studies the
tendencies and actions of people which cannot
be easily quantified or examined.

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Political science perspective

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a group of people with common
territory, interaction, and culture. The definition
of society has two types: the functional
definition and the structural definition.

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Society:

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a group of people with common
territory, interaction, and culture. The definition
of society has two types: the functional
definition and the structural definition.

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Society:

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Reasons people live together as a society:

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  1. For survival
  2. Feeling of gregariousness
  3. Specialization
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Characteristics of Society

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  1. It is a social system
  2. It is relatively large
  3. It socializes its members and from those from
    without
  4. It endures, produces and sustains its
    members for generations.
  5. It holds its members through a common
    culture
  6. It has clearly-defined geographical territory
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Major Functions of Society:

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  1. It provides a system of socialization
  2. It provides the basic needs of its members
  3. It regulates and controls people’s behavior
  4. It provides the means of social participation
  5. It provides mutual support to the members
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Ways by which a society is dissolved:

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  1. When the people kill each other through civil
    revolution
  2. When an outside force exterminates the
    members of the society
  3. When the members become apathetic
    among themselves or have no more sense of
    belongingness
  4. When a small society is absorbed by a
    stronger and larger society by means of
    conquest or territorial absorption
  5. When an existing society is submerged in
    water killing all the people and other living
    things in it
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shared patterns of behavior and
associated meanings that people learn and
participate in within the groups to which they
belong.

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Culture

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rich diversity in social
patterns that different human group exhibit
around the world.

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Cultural Variation

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patterns or traits that are
globally common to all societies.

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Cultural Universals:

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Characteristics of Culture

From the Perspective of Sociologists:

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  1. Dynamic, flexible and adaptive
  2. Shared and maybe challenged
  3. Learned through socialization or
    enculturation
  4. Patterned social interactions
  5. Learned through socialization or
    enculturation
  6. Requires language and other forms of
    communication
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From the Perspective of Anthropologist:

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  1. Learned
  2. Symbolic
  3. Systemic and Integrated
  4. Shared
  5. Encompassing
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Functions of Culture:

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  1. It serves as the “trademark” of the people in
    the society
  2. It gives meaning and direction to one’s
    existence
  3. It promotes meaning to individual’s existence
  4. It predicts social behavior
  5. It unifies diverse behavior
  6. It provides social solidarity
  7. It establishes social personality
  8. It provides systematic behavioral pattern
  9. It provides social structure category
  10. It maintains the biological functioning of the
    group
  11. It offers ready-made solutions to man’s
    material and immaterial problems
  12. It develops man’s attitude and values and
    gives him a conscience.
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Elements of Culture

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Symbols
Language
Technology
Values
Beliefs
Norms

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anything that is used to stand for
something else. It is anything that gives
meaning to the culture.

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Symbols

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known as the storehouse of
culture.

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Language

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application of knowledge and
equipment to ease the task of living and
maintaining the environment.

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Techhnology

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culturally defined standards for what is good or desirable.
Values
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conceptions or ideas of people have about what is true in the environment around them like what is life, how to value it and how one’s believed on the value of life relate with his or her interaction with others and the world.
Beliefs
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specific rules/standards to guide for appropriate behavior.
Norms
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There are two types of norms.
➔ Proscriptive norm ➔ Prescriptive norm
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(discouraging negative behavior; for example, “do not cheat”). those that express what people should not do
Proscriptive Norm
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(encouraging positive behavior; for example, “be honest”) prescriptive (or injunctive) norms state what people.
Prescriptive Norms
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three forms of norms.
Mores Folkways Laws
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behaviors that are learned and shared by a social group that we often refer to as “customs” in a group that are not morally significant, but they can be important for social acceptance. - No serious Consequences kung hnd sinunod (hnd ikkamatay & hnd ka nmn makukulong)
Folkways
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are norms of morality, or right and wrong, and if you break one it is often considered offensive to most people of a culture. Sometimes a more violation can also be illegal, but other times it can just be offensive. - Control of moral and ethical behavior - Standards na dapat sundan
Mores
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are norms that are actually defined as being legal or illegal. The government has decided these norms are so important that you could get in trouble for breaking them. - Same w/ Mores, both talks about Control of moral and ethical behavior - Written Rules
Laws
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Components of Culture
Material Culture Non Material Culture
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refers to the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture.
Material Culture
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refers to the nonphysical ideas that people have about their culture, including beliefs values, rules, norms, morals, language, organizations and institutions.
Non Material Culture
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Adaptation of Culture
Parallelism Diffusion Convergence Fission Acculturation Assimilation Accommodation
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same culture may take place in two or more different places.
Parallelism
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refers to those behavioral patterns that pass back and forth from one culture to another.
Diffusion
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qtakes place when two or more cultures are fused or merged into one culture making it different from the original culture.
Convergence
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takes place when people break away from their original culture and start developing a different culture of their own.
Fission
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process wherein individuals incorporate the behavioral patterns of other cultures into their own either voluntarily or by
Acculturation
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when the culture of a larger society is adopted by a smaller society, that smaller society assumes some of the culture of the larger society or cost society.
Assimilation
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when the larger society and smaller society are able to respect and tolerate each other’s culture even if there is already a prolonged contact of each other’s culture.
Accommodation
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Variation between Cultures
Ethnocentrism Culture Shock Culture Relativism
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the regard that one’s own culture and society is the center of everything and seen as the most efficient and superior among the cultures in the world.
Ethnocentrism
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feeling of disoriented, uncertain, out of place or even fearful when immersed in an unfamiliar culture.feeling of disoriented, uncertain, out of place or even fearful when immersed in an unfamiliar culture.
Culture Shock
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the practice by assessing a culture by its own standards rather that viewing it through the lens of one’s own culture. It has its advantages:
Culture Relativism ➔ It promotes cooperation ➔ Respect and equality is encouraged ➔ It preserves human cultures ➔ Cultural relativism creates a society without judgement.
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Other Important Terms Related to Culture
1. Cultural diversity 2. Sub-culture 3. Culture Lag 4. Culture Shock 5. Ideal Culture 6. Real Culture 7. High Culture 8. Popular Culture 9. Culture Change
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a natural process of biological changes occurring in a population across successive generations.
Evolution
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“Manlike Primates”
Hominids
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“Handy Man”
Homo Habilis
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“The Upright Man”
Homo Erectus
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“The Thinking Man”
Homo Sapiens
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Four Biological Capacity of Human to Develop Culture
➔ Our thinking capacity ➔ Our gripping capacity ➔ Our speaking capacity ➔ Our walking/standing capacity
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Cultural Period
➔ Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age) ➔ Neolithic Age (New Stone Age) ➔ Age of Metals
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Use of simple pebble tools. Learned to live in caves. Discovered the use of fires. Developed small sculptures; and monumental painting, incised designs, and reliefs on the wall of caves"Food-collecting cultures"
Paleolithic Age (old stone age) 3 million years to 8,000 B.C.
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Settlement in permanent villages. Dependence on domesticated plants or animals. Appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving. "Food-producing cultures"
Neolithic Age (New Stone Age) occurred sometime in 10,000 BCE
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The used of metal such as bronze, copper, and iron produced a new historical development form cradles civilization of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, including India and China which later on spread throughout Asia. The civilization which defines to a more developed social, cultural, political and economic system. It had already direct contacts through tribes, kingdoms, empire and later on state which the constant political activities were through conquest, wars and trade.
Age of Metal 4,000 - 1,500 B.C.
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Types of Society
➔ Hunting and Gathering Society ➔ Horticultural and Pastoral Society ➔ Agrarian Society ➔ Industrial Society
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Very simple - fire, arrow, baskets Bare necessities no surplus Nomadic 25-40 people All resting within Family
Hunting and Gathering Society
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Digging sticks, occasionally blade tools. Semi- permanent - some cities occasionally kingdoms.
Horticultural And Pastoral Society
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Irrigation, Fertilization, Metallurgy, Animal-drawn plow. Permanent urbanization becoming important, empires covering continent.
Agrarian Society
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Advance sources of energy; Mechanized production. Complex set of interdependent institutions.
Industrial Society
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refers to the culture, language, social structures and one’s position within that particular society. ➔ Gender Stereotypes ➔ Race
Context
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comprise the work of socialization.
Content and Process
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the outcome of socialization and refer to the way a person conceives and conducts after undergoing this process.
Results
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WHO DECIDES WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE SOCIETY?
Human Dignity, Rights, and the Common Good
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respect and acknowledge of an individual person, a human being.
Human Dignity
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legal, social, ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system.
Human Rights
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the sum of those conditions of social life which allow social groups and their individual members, relatively thorough and ready to access to their own fulfillment.
Common Good
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Devians Typology by?
Robert K. Merton