UTS Flashcards
What method does Socrates propose in his perspective?
The Dialectic method
It is a way of knowing the self by evaluating yourself through personal questions such as “Why am I like this?”
The Dialectic method
This is the product of Plato’s view of the world as imperfect copies of the world of Forms.
Ideals
What Allegory delineates on Plato’s world of forms?
Allegory of the Cave
Who posited a counter-philosophy to Plato’s ideal perspective?
Aristotle
This perspective posited that everything is composed of matter and form, that this world also exists along with the world of forms.
Substance
Who are the two main philosophers in the Medieval Period?
Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas
What book did Augustine of Hippo write?
Soliloquies and Confessions.
What philosophy did Augustine of Hippo develop to explain things which may not exist?
Privation
What philosophy did Thomas Aquinas develop to explain what constitutes something or what makes it what it is?
Essence
We may better understand essence if we know our- ?
Purpose
Who are the prominent philosophers in the Modern Period?
Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Soren Kierkegaard
What Allegory describes Nietzsche’s Ubermensch philosophy?
The Allegory of the Three Metamorphoses (the Camel, The Lion and the Child)
The cycle of reverting back into the camel and evolving into the child once again.
Eternal Recurrence
This concept sees society as a living organism with different parts that function to support the whole structure. This assumes that society harmonically stabilizes itself. Any change in society is a product of evolution.
Structural Functionalism
This theory posits that the main cause of conflict in society stems from two or more disagreeeing social branches
Conflict Theory
The idea that people attach meaning to things.
Symbolic Interactionism
The three main aspects of Symbolic interactionism.
- People attach meaning to things./ People act based on the meaning they attach to things.
- Each person attaches different meanings to things.
- The meanings we attach to things changes over time.
The idea that people behave according to how they view themselves or how they want to be viewed.
The Looking-Glass self
The idea that we have control over how others perceive us.
Impression Management
The idea that our personal issues are often tied to more public concerns
Sociological Imagination
Who proposed the idea of Sociological imagination?
C. Wright Mills
It is the concern that people change their lifestyle for new lifestyles they get introduced to later on in life
identity crisis (Macionis)
Two types of people who undergo Identity crisis
Traditional-directed people and other directed people
This refers to the internalizing and subjective process of adopting a transmitted culture from a generation to the next-
Enculturation
The things that you and the people in your village do in common are part of what anthropologists call-?
Collective Identity
This is the identity you start to assume when you grow aware of the difference between yourself and your community.
Personal Identity
The way you speak that is part of who you are and the culture that you bring with you to other cultures is known as
Cultural baggage.
The process of adapting to a predominant culture.
Assimilation
The process of briefly evaluating yourself after being introduced to a new culture.
Culture Shock
The culture shock that you feel when you return home after living in a different place with a different culture for so long
reverse culture shock
What perspective centralizes around the study of Society, relationships and the vast network of human interaction?
Sociology.
What perspective centralizes around the study of humankind across space and time?
Anthropology
What are the key seven aspects of Existentialism?
- Leap of Faith
- Authentic
- Dasein
- Ubermensch
- Eternal Recurrence
- Being-thrown-in-the-world.
- Being-unto-death
What idea of existentialism did Soren Kierkegaard propose?
Leap of faith