Chapter 1-2

Question 0

What is Society?

Answer 0

A group of people who occupy a specific locality, share common cultural traditions and cooperate for their mutual survival.

Question 1

What is Culture?

Answer 1

It is the learned system of rules, standards, and norms shared by a society that is largely responsible for human behavior

Question 2

What is a Signal?

Answer 2

A gesture, sound, behavior or expression whose meaning is self-evident.

Question 3

What is a Symbol?

Answer 3

A gesture, expression, sound or motion whose meaning is NOT self-evident, but a group invests an arbitrary meaning into.

Question 4

Ethnography

Answer 4

A description of a culture based on observation

Question 5

Ethnology

Answer 5

The comparative study of 2 or more ethnographies.

Question 6

Holism

Answer 6

Viewing a question from the broadest possible perspective, while looking for multiple variables to explain the observed phenomenon.

Question 7

System

Answer 7

A group of interrelated and interdependent parts forming a whole