CM 1 Flashcards
(11 cards)
A concept that defines your distinctive characteristic over the course of your life.
IDENTITY
A society’s way of life, which includes experiences, beliefs, traditions, language, knowledge, arts, etc.
CULTURE
Groups of people who have shared culture, who are living in particular geographical location, and who are interacting with one another to meet the basic needs for survival.
SOCIETY
Significance of Culture:
- Culture makes man adapt and integrate himself to his environment by being resourceful and creative for his survival.
- Culture establishes norms, beliefs, and other social behavior.
- Culture conveys verbal and non-verbal communications.
- Culture produces technical evolution.
- Culture contributes to the overall development of human person.
Significance of Society:
- Society is an integral product of human interaction and interconnectedness.
- Society provides knowledge and ideas on the importance of justice, equality, and other widely-accepted human behavior.
- Society is the representation of one’s identity.
- Society is the symbol of political interdependence and an avenue for economic interdependence.
Significance of Politics:
- Politics provides knowledge and understanding on the works of the government and its components.
- Politics inculcates objectives and principles that must be abided by officials and citizens.
- Politics is an avenue to better understand political concepts such as democracy, human rights, freedom, justice, etc. and to become aware of what is happening around the world.
- Refers as “the science of humanity”
- Studies human beings in aspects ranging from the biology and evolutionary history.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Social science that studies human socieities, their interactions, and the processes that preserve and change them.
SOCIOLOGY
Father of Sociology
AUGUSTO COMTE
or Isidore Marie Auguste Francois Xavier Comte
Refers to the systematic study of state and its government, relationship of state and people in the community, and relationship of state and other states.
POLITICAL SCIENCE