UCSP - Society & Culture

Question 1

Defined as constituting a fairly large number of people who are living in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside their area and participate in a common culture.

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Society

Question 2

Perceives as the matrix of society, the totality of duties, rights, division of labor, norms, social control etc.

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Social Structure

Question 3

All-Knowing, All-Powerful, Everywhere

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Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresent

Question 4

Set of social relations which are regularly actualized and thus reproduced as a system through interaction.

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Social System

Question 5

3 levels of social media

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Dyadic Relationship
Household
Local Community

Question 6

It may also be used to refer to a set of relationships activated for a particular end.

The larger the scale the fewer the actors of the system one knows personally.

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Network

Question 7

Transcends dualism such as local/global/ and small/large scale. Online communities can be based on close interpersonal relationships even if the participants are scattered around the world.

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Non-localized Networks or The Internet

Question 8

Person:

Draws a classificatory scheme that runs along two axes

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Mary Douglas

Question 9

People’s society is classified according to their degree of social cohesion.

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Group Dimension

Question 10

Describes the degree of shared classification of knowledge.

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Grid Dimension

Question 11

Actors do not act entirely on their own whim: they are bound by structural precondition for their acts.

Term & sino nag sabi

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Duality of Structure / Anthony Giddens

Question 12

Perceived as the matrix of society, emptied of human, the totality of duties, rights division of labor, norms social control etc. Examples include family, religion, law, and class.

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Social Structure

Question 13

Person:

point out the functions of social institutions to show how they supported and contributed to the maintenance of society as a whole.

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Alfred Radcliffe Brown

Question 14

Society thought as a kind of organism

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Structural Functionalism

Question 15

established pattern of rules, customs, statuses and social institutions.

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Social Structure

Question 16

defined as the dynamic aspect of structures , what people actually do, their decisions and pattern of action within the framework of structure.

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Social organization

Question 17

First anthropologist to use the expression social network.

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John Barnes

Question 18

Three kinds of social fields

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Territorially delineated
Economic field
Social field

Question 19

hierarchically organized through public administration

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Territorially delineated

Question 20

consist of many mutually dependent but formally independent entities.

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Economic field

Question 21

had no unit or boundaries had no coordinating organization, made up by ties of friendship and acquaintance

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Social field

Question 22

Is a people’s way of life

It prefigures both the process and structures that account not only for the development of such a way of life, but also for the inherent systems that lend it its self-perpetuating nature.

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Culture

Question 23

Refers to the similarities in words and actions which can be directly observed.

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Explicit Culture

Question 24

Exist in abstract forms which are not quite obvious.

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Implicit Culture

Question 25

Types of Culture

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Material / Non-Material

Question 26

Perception of accepted reality. Reality may be material or non-material.

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Beliefs

Question 27

Refers to any information that is perceived as true.

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Knowledge

Question 28

established expectations of society as to how a person is supposed to act depending on time, place or situation.

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Social norms

Question 29

Patterns of repetitive behavior which become habitual and conventional part of living.

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Folkways

Question 30

Set of ethical standard

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Mores

Question 31

Anything relatively worthy, important, desirable or valuable

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Values

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Practical application of knowledge

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Technology

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Encourages solidarity, believing that one’s way are the best

Hinders the cooperation and understanding between groups

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Ethnocentrism

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Preference for the foreign, exact opposite of ethnocentrism

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Xenocentrism

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Fear of what is perceived as foreign or strange

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Xenophobia

Question 36

It underscores the idea that the culture in every society should be understood and regarded on its own terms.

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Cultural Relativism

Question 37

Culture has tangible and intangible components.

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Cultural Heritage

Question 38

are those that are produced and created based on specific and practical purposes and aesthetic values.

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Tangible

Question 39

may be associated with events, historical sites but not limited to the houses of heroes and historical personalities.

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Intangible