UCSP W3.4 Flashcards
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.
SOCIETY
Everything that we do, think, and are capable of doing and thinking all emanate from the _
SOCIETY
is present even in the most personal fibers of our individual lives.
SOCIETY
THREE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIETY
STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
CONFLICT THEORY
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
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.
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
Instead of putting importance to social order, the conflict perspective sees society as an arena. Social actors are gladiators fighting for their lives.
CONFLICT THEORY
This view sees society as a system with parts, and these parts have their respective functions to perform. It looks at social order.
STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
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.”
CULTURE
CONCEPTS OF CULTURE
ETHNOCENTRISM
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
SUB-CULTURE
CULTURAL DIFFUSION
XENOCENTRISM
XENOPHOBIA
The fear of what is perceived as foreign or strange. It is when we dislike people from other cultures resulting to discrimination and hostility
XENOPHOBIA
The opposite of ethnocentrism and refers to the belief that another culture is superior to one’s own.
XENOCENTRISM
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.
CULTURAL DIFFUSION
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.
CULTURAL DIFFUSION
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
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
It is a group that possesses a set of distinctive way of feeling and acting which sets members apart from the larger society.
SUB-CULTURE