usss Flashcards
It can be traced from the Latin word “socius” which means
companionship or friendship. It is a set of inter-related, inter-dependent and
overlapping social relationships between and among a group of individuals
who are occupying a particular territory.
Society -
It refers to the objects or belongings of a group of people
such as automobiles, stores, and the physical structures where people
worship
Material Culture -
It consists of the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a
society that are by its nature, intangible.
Non-material Culture -
A group of people who share a common lifestyle and
organization
Human society-
a kinship relationship created or that which exists between two
people as a result of someone’s marriage
Affinity –
it is the quality of having descended from the same ancestor.
Consanguinity –
it is a system of acknowledged social parentage which varies from
society to society, whereby a person may claim kinship ties with another.
Descent –
a group of people who share a common descent.
Lineage –
refers to the existence of socially recognized biological relationship
between individuals in society
DESCENT –
refers to the line through which descent is traced.
LINEAGE –
A system of determining descent groups in which one belongs
to one’s father’s or mother’s line, whereby one’s descent is traced either exclusively
through male ancestors (patrilineal) or exclusively through female ancestors
(matrilineal).
UNILINEALITY -
It is tracing of descent through the female line.
MATRILINEALITY -
It is also known as the male line or agnatic kinship, a
common kinship system in which an individual’s family membership derives from and is
traced through his or her father’s lineage.
PATRILINEALITY -
A system of family lineage in which the relatives on the
mother’s side and father’s side are equally important for emotional ties or for transfer of
property or wealth.
BILINEAL DESCENT -
A form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner
during his or her lifetime or at any one time (serial monogamy).
MONOGAMY-
refers to marriages of only two people
MARITAL MONOGAMY -
refers to two partners living together, having sex with
each other and cooperating in acquiring basic resources.
SOCIAL MONOGAMY -
refers to two partners remaining sexually exclusive with
each other and having no outside sex.
SEXUAL MONOGAMY -
refers to sexually monogamous relationships with
genetic evidence of paternity.
GENETIC MONOGAMY –
It involves marriage with more than one spouse.
POLYGAMY -
When a man is married to more than one wife at a time.
POLYGYNY –
When a woman is married to more than one husband at a time.
POLYANDRY –
A marriage that involves multiple husbands and wives.
GROUP MARRIAGE –
It refers to direct relations
primary kinship
It refers to the primary kins of primary kin.
secondary kinship
It refers to the primary kin of primary kins primary kin
or secondary kin.
tertiary kinship
Directly related to
each other by birth.
Primary Consanguineal Kinship -
Direct relationship formed as
a result of marriage.
Primary Affinal Kinship -
Refers to the
primary consanguineal kin’s primary consanguineal
kin.
Secondary Consanguineal Kinship -
Refers to one’s primary
affinal kin’s primary kin.
Secondary Affinal Kinship -
it refers to an
individual’s primary consanguineal kin (parents), their
primary kin (parent’s parents) and their primary kin
(parent’s parent’s parents).
Tertiary Consanguineal Kinship -
it refers to primary affinal
kin’s primary kin’s primary kin or secondary affinal
kin’s primary kin or primary affinal kin’s secondary
kin.
Tertiary Affinal Kinship -
it refers to the categorization of relationships identified
with social groups based on the various group dynamics that define social
organization
Secondary group –
this basically covers the groups that we belong to, hence those
that we identify with.
In- group –
the group to which we do not belong to
Out- group –
a group of individuals whom you compare yourself
against and may strive to be like.
Reference group –
A group held together by intimate, face-to–face
relationships, formed by family and environmental associations and regarded
as basic to social life and culture
Primary group –
A given society may be described as the sum total of relationships among its
_________ members.
constituent,
Social ends of kinship include the socialization of children and the formation of the
basic economic and_______groups
socialistic
Human relations through ________ are called affinity.
marriage
Degrees of relationships are not identical to _______ or legal
succession.
heirship
Can be defined as two or more people who interact with one
another, share similar characteristics and collectively have a
sense of unity.
Social group
May be defined as an organizational system which functions
to satisfy basic social needs by providing an ordered
framework linking the individual to the larger society.
Social institution
Refers to the degree and strength of interpersonal attraction
among members of the group.
Cohesiveness
Also known as esprit de corps, is the capacity of group’s
members to maintain belief in an institution or goal,
particularly in the face of opposition or hardship
Morale
The feeling that you belong is most important in seeing value
in life and in coping with intensely painful emotions.
Sense of belongingness
Is a promise or agreement to do something
Commitment
Is a social structure made up of set of social actors such as
individuals or organizations. Sets of dyadic ties and other
social interactions between actors.
Social network
Is a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs
and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation
Social role
Performance of roles depends on the cohesiveness of the members.
Cohesiveness of members in a group is measured in four (4) ways:
number of friends, morale of members, sense of belongingness and commitment of the members
Five major institutions in sociology are
political institutions, educational
institutions, economic institutions, family and religious institutions.
