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Culture and Society Flashcards

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visible eg. Flags, heritage objects, monuments

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Tangible

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refers to the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or a group by person, another culture etc

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Enculturation

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Classical Theories of the origin of the society

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Structural functional
Conflict Theory
Symbolic interactionism

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The study of various aspects of humans within past and present societies

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Anthropology

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intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries

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Xenophobia

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Powers

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Tripartite

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is 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

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He stated that a society is an organized group of individuals. A culture is an organized group of learned responses

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Ralph Linton

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having different cultures respect each other’s differences

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Cultural diversity

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occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along the lines of socially defined categories of persons

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Social inequality

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German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist. His ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research.

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Max Weber

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All powerful

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Omnipotence

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everywhere

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Omnipresence

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all knowing

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Omniscience

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4 Functions of culture

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Culture defines situations
Culture defines attitudes, values and goals
Culture defines myths, legends and supernatural
Culture provides behavior patterns

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sociologist best known for coining the term ‘sociology,’ and as the founder of positivism

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August Comte

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the idea that all norms, beliefs and values are dependent on their cultural context

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Cultural relativism

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the feeling of disorientation experienced by someone who is suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture, way of life, or set of attitudes

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Culture Shock

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He said that culture is a complex which includes knowledge, beliefs, art morals, law and any other capabilities and habits

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E.B. Taylor

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guides in the performance of roles and in everyday actions and interactions

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Rules

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2 kinds of Rules

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written

unwritten

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was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline and is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science

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Emile Durkheim

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study the norms and values of societies

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Social anthropology and cultural anthropology

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studies how language affects social life

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Linguistic anthropology

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a primate of a family that includes humans and their fossil ancestors and also (in recent systems) at least some of the great apes

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Hominids

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was a philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Born in Trier to a middle-class family, Marx later studied political economy

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Karl Marx

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an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide. Eg. gender roles, the incest taboo, religious and healing ritual, mythology, marriage

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Cultural universal

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He witnessed the evils of social inequality

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Karl Marx

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It explores the issues of meaning-making and why this is crucial in understanding order or conflict as processes that brought society

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Symbolic interactionism

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society is made possible by cooperation and interdependence. Society is a system with parts, and these parts have their respective functions.

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Structural functional

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instead of putting importance to social order the conflict perspective see society as an arena.

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Conflict theory

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is the preference for the products, styles, or ideas of someone else’s culture rather than of one’s own

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Xenocentrism

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7 Characterisics of Culture

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Culture is social 
Culture varies from society to society
Culture is shared
Culture is learned
Culture is transmitted among members of society
Culture is continuous and cumulative
Culture is gratifying and idealistic
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A belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture.

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Ethnocentrism

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Main vehicle of culture

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Language

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Functions of Ethnocentrism

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It encourages the solidarity of group.
It hinders the understanding or the cooperation between group.
It often leads to social change.

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feature of the power of ideas to create social realities to members of society.

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Social fact / Social phenomenon

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Declared Persona non grata / an unacceptable or unwelcome person

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Karl Marx

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relabeled as ‘Critical historical’

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Karl Marx

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Refers to contents of culture, Actions, Language, Attitude

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The What

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Reasons for compliance and the mechanism that facilitate performance

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The Why

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Processes Learned, Shared, Communicated

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The How

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