Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics (CSSOC01) Flashcards
- large-scale diffusion of traits and culture that occurs over a long period of time.
- alien traits are usually adapted by the less powerful societies because dominant societies have more economic and political power over them.
Ex: Learning new language
ACCULTURATION
culture differ, so that a cultural trait, act or idea has no meaning or function by itself but has a meaning only within a cultural society.
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
not to judge the practices of others based on your own culture; hence, respecting it in their own cultural context.
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
A feeling of one’s inferiority for one’s culture
XENOCENTRISM
preference for the foreign
XENOCENTRISM
A feeling of one’s superiority for one’s culture
ETHNOCENTRISM
- creation of pottery; carved objects from wood; built shelters and tombs
- began farming in permanent villages raised and herded animals
- built mud-brick houses and places of worship; had specialized jobs; created more complex tools out of copper and bronze
NEOLITHIC PERIOD
- made pottery and cave paintings
- hunted; gathered plants; stored for later use
- settled villages located near rivers and lakes; used bows and arrows and other simple tools; began taming animals
MESOLITHIC
Systematic study of social interaction and society.
SOCIOLOGY
systematic and empirical study of
governance that examines societal, cultural, and behavioral factors in the operation of government and politics
POLITICAL SCIENCE
- to be or become similar in behavior, form, nature or character.
- the act of changing behavior oneself to fit agreed upon social expectations, established customs, and ideals; to avoid standing out.
CONFORMITY
- is any behavior that the members of a social group define as violating the established social norms.
- social audience that will determine whether a behavior is deviant or not.
- What is considered as sinful and immoral in one society is not sinful and immoral inanother; what is appropriate and acceptable in one society is inappropriate and unacceptable in another.
DEVIANCE
GABRIELA: General Assembly Binding Women
for integrity, reform, equality, leaderships action.
Sectoral Group
Pressure Group
- Political Party
- Pressure group
Promotional Group
In-Group: social groups to which an individual feels he or she belongs. One feels loyalty and respect for these groups
Out-Group: social groups that an individual does not identify with. One feels antagonism and contempt for these groups.
Reference Group
a group to which we compare ourselves that serve as a standard against which behaviors and attitudes are measured.
Reference Group
It denotes a unique individual with self descriptions drawn from one’s own biography of the individual.
Identity
It is the tenets or convictions that people hold to be true, which has sprung from our values. Beliefs also form an ideal culture and a real culture. Ideal culture is what we believe is what our culture should be, while the real implementation of the culture as we know it which is outside of the ideal is the real culture.
Belief
Is a set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position or status. These expectation define the behavior people view as appropriate and inappropriate for the occupants of the status.
Role
Character
people who share a common characteristic or behavior (such as gender or occupation) but do not necessarily interact or identify with one another.
Social Categories
the fear of what is perceived as or strange.
Xenophobia
can also be exhibited in the form of an “uncritical exaltation of another culture” in which a culture is ascribed “an unreal, stereotyped, and exotic quality foreign
Xenophobia
- Interest: language (verbal
and non-verbal
communica;on) - Data: Sounds, words,
grammar, movement,
gestures, expressions
Linguistic
Social, conforming
Me
created by the interactions of the I, the Me, and the Generalized other
Myself
creative, active, responsive
I
rules, procedures & routines of the organization. Role is defined
Formal organization
items within a society that you can taste, touch or feel. These are what people create from artifacts to features of human cultural activities that are found in each society that share a common culture. It serves as an identifier that represents a specific cultural group
Material Culture
nonphysical product of society. The intangibles and the abstract things found in a culture such as values, beliefs, ideals, and norms. The
nonmaterial culture can then be shared either through a cognitive process or a normative process.
Non Material Culture
a social position that is voluntarily acquired and reflects a person’s effort and ability
Achieved status
5 Social institution in the society
1.) Family
2.) Government
3.) Religion
4.) Economy
5.) Education
5 Agents of Socialization
1.) Family
2.) School
3.) Peer Group
4.) Workplace
5.) Media
4 Ancient Civilizations and where it originated
1.) Mesopotamia - Tigris-Euphrates
2.) Egyptian - Nile River
3.) Indus- Indus-Ganges
4.) Yangtze - Yellow River and Huang Ho
The Stages of Self according to Mead
1.) The Play Stage
2.) The Preparatory Stage
3.) The Game Stage
Different forms of Deviance
1.) Physical Deviance
2.) Sexual Deviance
3.) Deviance in CyberSpace
4.) Elite Deviance
5.) Positive Deviance
widely observed in society and pose heavy moral significance (cheating on test)
Mores
observed in casual routine encounters and are
considered less significant (wearing shirt or jeans to formal gathering)
Folkways
it’s normal in Ghana the teen age pregnancy.
He said that this deviant behavior is integral part of healthy society, his idea about
deviance is aligned with the idea of emile Durkheim.
Emile Durkheim
cultural variation refers to the difference in social behaviors, beliefs, customs and traditions
that exist among various groups and societies.
Cultural Variation
Social differences
simple collection of people who happened to be together in a particular place but do not
significantly interact or identity with one another
Social Aggregates
shared rules and expectations guiding behavior in a society or group, maintaining social order,
defining cultural values, and shaping interactions.
Norm
Occurs when an individual relocates and adapts the culture practices of the new environment.
Transculturation
discovered the fire during early stone age
Homo Erectus
a person who conforms or follow to accepted behavior or established practices.
Conformist
