Week 1 Flashcards
Exist in the land of ideas and thoughts
Culture, Society, and Politics
Categories that we possess as individuals , labels that we are ascribed or given to us individually and collectively
Social Beings
categories that we possess, assigned to us by the society at large.
social beings
“Anthropology has humanity as its subject of research, but unlike the other human science, it tries to grasp its object through its most diverse manifestations.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
the distinctive characteristics that defines an individual or is shared by those belonging to a particular group,
identity
person’s or a collectivity principle or standards of behavior.
values
something one accepts as true or real, takes the form of firmly held opinion or conviction.
beliefs
etymology of culture
colere - to cultivate
acquired cognitive and symbolic aspect of human existence.
Culture
Social organization of human life, patterns of interaction and power relationship.
Society
Aspects of Culture
- Learned.
- Symbolic
- Shared
“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
Politics as the affair of the state, affairs that do not belong to the state are not political
Michael Oakeshott
“Politics as the authoritative allocation of values in the society.”, An allocation of values that is not authoritative is not political and in society it is the state that has the authority to allocate values
David Easton
“Politics any activity involving human beings associated together in relationship of power and authority where conflict occurs.”
Robert Dahl
Enables us the possessor 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
Enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within the society.
Sociological Imagination
Character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others, they have to do with his self 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
society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability
Structural-functional approach
types of structural-functional appraoch acording to Robert K. Merton
manifest functions, latent functions, social dysfunction
intended consequences of any social pattern
Manifest functions
unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern
latent functions
social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society
social dysfunctions
society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change
Social Conflict Approach
society as the product of the everyday interactions of individual
Symbolic-Interaction Approach
broad focus on social structures that shape society as a whole
Macro
a close-up focus on social interaction in a specific situation
Micro
