USCP - Intro & Politics

Question 1

They cannot be seen or touched and yet influence the way we see and experience our individual and collective social beings.

Answer 1

Culture, Society & Politics

Question 2

Categories that we possess as individuals, labels that we are ascribed or given to us individually and collectively

Answer 2

Social Beings

Question 3

Defined by the very categories that we possess, assigned to us by the society at large

Answer 3

Sociality

Question 4

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.”

Answer 4

Claude Levi-Strauss

Question 5

The distinctive characteristics that define an individual or are shared by those belonging to a particular group

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Identity

Question 6

A collective principle or standard of behavior

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Values

Question 7

Something one accepts as true or real, takes the form of firmly held opinion or conviction

Answer 7

Beliefs

Question 8

The word culture originates from ______, meaning to cultivate.

Answer 8

Latin word “Colere”

Question 9

Refers to the social organization of human life, patterns of interaction and power relationship.

Answer 9

Society

Question 10

Aspects of Culture:
- Because culture is acquired by being born into a particular society in the process of enculturation.

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It is learned

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

Culture is Symbolic

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

Integrated

Question 13

Aspects of Culture:
- Within the exclusive domain of social relations

Answer 13

Culture is Shared

Question 14

Politics is associated with how power is gained. Allied with the government which is considered as the ultimate authority.

Answer 14

Political Science

Question 15

Is science, commonly defined as the knowledge derived from experiment and observation systematically done.

Answer 15

Politics

Question 16

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.”

Answer 16

Aristotle

Question 17

Affairs which do not belong to the state are not political.

(Term and sino nag sabi?)

Answer 17

Michael Oakeshott
- Affairs of the State

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

David Easton
- Politics as an authoritative allocation of values in society

Question 19

Said that “Politics is any activity involving human beings associated together in a relationship of power and authority where conflicts occurs.”

Answer 19

Robert Dahl

Question 20

Derived from two greek words, meaning human and thought or reasons. Considered as the father of all social and behavioral sciences

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Anthropology

Question 21

Study of society, social institutions and social relationships.

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Sociology

Question 22

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.

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Sociological Imagination

Question 23

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.

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Troubles

Question 24

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.

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Issues

Question 25

View society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability

Answer 25

Structural-Functional Approach

Question 26

Intended consequences of any social pattern

Ex: Provides information and skill to hold jobs

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Manifest Function

Question 27

Unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern

Ex: Limiting unemployment

Answer 27

Latent Function

Question 28

Social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society

Ex: Rising immigration, Income inequality

Answer 28

Social Dysfunction

Question 29

Sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change

Answer 29

Social Conflict Approach

Question 30

Sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individual

Answer 30

Symbolic-Interaction Approach

Question 31

broad focus on social structures that shape society a whole.

Answer 31

Macro

Question 32

A close-up focus on social interaction in a specific situation.

Answer 32

Micro