USCP - Intro & Politics Flashcards
They cannot be seen or touched and yet influence the way we see and experience our individual and collective social beings.
Culture, Society & Politics
Categories that we possess as individuals, labels that we are ascribed or given to us individually and collectively
Social Beings
Defined by the very categories that we possess, assigned to us by the society at large
Sociality
Said that “Anthropology has humanity as its subjects of research, but unlike the other human sciences, it tries to gasp its object through its most diverse manifestations.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
The distinctive characteristics that define an individual or are shared by those belonging to a particular group
Identity
A collective principle or standard of behavior
Values
Something one accepts as true or real, takes the form of firmly held opinion or conviction
Beliefs
The word culture originates from ______, meaning to cultivate.
Latin word “Colere”
Refers to the social organization of human life, patterns of interaction and power relationship.
Society
Aspects of Culture:
- Because culture is acquired by being born into a particular society in the process of enculturation.
It is learned
Aspects of Culture:
- It renders meaning to what people do, beliefs, religion, ritual, myths, dances, artwork, and so on, are meaningful human expressions of what people do and how they act.
Culture is Symbolic
Aspects of Culture:
- Makes society work, system of meanings and many other facets of culture such as kindred, religion, economic activities, inheritance, and political process do not function in isolation.
Integrated
Aspects of Culture:
- Within the exclusive domain of social relations
Culture is Shared
Politics is associated with how power is gained. Allied with the government which is considered as the ultimate authority.
Political Science
Is science, commonly defined as the knowledge derived from experiment and observation systematically done.
Politics
Said that “A human being is a political animal; he is not human but a beast or a god if he can live outside the state.”
Aristotle
Affairs which do not belong to the state are not political.
(Term and sino nag sabi?)
Michael Oakeshott
- Affairs of the State
To ____, an allocation of values that is not authoritative is not political and in society, it is that state that has the authority to allocate values.
David Easton
- Politics as an authoritative allocation of values in society
Said that “Politics is any activity involving human beings associated together in a relationship of power and authority where conflicts occurs.”
Robert Dahl
Derived from two greek words, meaning human and thought or reasons. Considered as the father of all social and behavioral sciences
Anthropology
Study of society, social institutions and social relationships.
Sociology
Enables us to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals.
Sociological Imagination
Occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others, they have to do with himself and with those limited areas of social life of which he is directly and personally aware.
Troubles
Have to do with matters that transcend these local environments of the individual and the range of his inner life.
They have to do with the organization of many such milieux overlap and interpenetrate to form the larger structure of social and historical life.
Issues
View society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability
Structural-Functional Approach
Intended consequences of any social pattern
Ex: Provides information and skill to hold jobs
Manifest Function
Unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern
Ex: Limiting unemployment
Latent Function
Social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society
Ex: Rising immigration, Income inequality
Social Dysfunction
Sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change
Social Conflict Approach
Sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individual
Symbolic-Interaction Approach
broad focus on social structures that shape society a whole.
Macro
A close-up focus on social interaction in a specific situation.
Micro
