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