UCSP W3.4 Flashcards

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Defined as constituting a fairly large number of people who are living in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside their area, and participate in a common culture.

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SOCIETY

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Everything that we do, think, and are capable of doing and thinking all emanate from the _

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SOCIETY

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is present even in the most personal fibers of our individual lives.

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SOCIETY

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THREE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIETY

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STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
CONFLICT THEORY
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM

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It does not deal with either order or conflict. Instead, it explores the issues of meaning-making and why it is crucial in understanding order or conflict as processes that brought about society.

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SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM

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Instead of putting importance to social order, the conflict perspective sees society as an arena. Social actors are gladiators fighting for their lives.

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CONFLICT THEORY

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This view sees society as a system with parts, and these parts have their respective functions to perform. It looks at social order.

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STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM

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Edward B. Tylor who first coined the term ‘_’ describe _ as “that complex whole, which encompasses beliefs, practices, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of society.”

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CULTURE

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CONCEPTS OF CULTURE

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ETHNOCENTRISM
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
SUB-CULTURE
CULTURAL DIFFUSION
XENOCENTRISM
XENOPHOBIA

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The fear of what is perceived as foreign or strange. It is when we dislike people from other cultures resulting to discrimination and hostility

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XENOPHOBIA

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The opposite of ethnocentrism and refers to the belief that another culture is superior to one’s own.

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XENOCENTRISM

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The process by which culture traits or complexes of one society or ethnic group is borrowed by another, resulting from their spread from a center of origin to another.

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CULTURAL DIFFUSION

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The process by which culture traits or complexes of one society or ethnic group is borrowed by another, resulting from their spread from a center of origin to another.

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CULTURAL DIFFUSION

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It is the idea that all norms, beliefs, and values are dependent on their cultural context and should be treated as such. It promotes greater appreciation of the cultures one encountered

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CULTURAL RELATIVISM

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It is a group that possesses a set of distinctive way of feeling and acting which sets members apart from the larger society.

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SUB-CULTURE

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A term coined by William Graham Sumner, the practice of comparing other cultural practices with those of one’s own and automatically finding those other cultural practices to be inferior.

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ETHNOCENTRISM