Defining Cukture and Society from the Perspective of Anthropology and Sociology

Question 1

shared and socially transmitted ideas,
values, perceptions, which are used to
make sense of experience and which
generates behavior and are reflected in that behavior

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

a group of people living in the same
territory, relatively independent of people
outside their area, and participating in
common culture

Answer 2

Society

Question 3

4 kinds of capital

Answer 3

Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Economic power, Symbolic Capital

Question 4

whom you know;
your connections

Answer 4

Social Capital

Question 5

what you have;
dispositions of the mind and body

Answer 5

Cultural Capital

Question 6

material assets
which are convertible into money

Answer 6

Economic power

Question 7

combination of the
three capitals

Answer 7

Symbolic Capital

Question 8

Society if defined by 2 boundaries. What are these?

Answer 8

Physical ~ territory
Cultural ~ distinctiveness

Question 9

structures that is structuring
our life

Answer 9

political power

Question 10

Political power in the Philippines:

Answer 10

Democracy: By the people, for the
people, with the people

Question 11

collection of all the physical objects that
people invented or borrowed from other
cultures

Answer 11

material culture

Question 12

intangible elements
→ belief, values, customs, norms, symbols

Answer 12

Nonmaterial culture

Question 13

Conceptions that people accept as true.

Answer 13

Beliefs

Question 14

General shared conceptions of what is
good, right, appropriate, and important
regarding conduct, appearance, and
states of being.

Answer 14

Values

Question 15

Rules specifying appropriate and
inappropriate behavior to a particular
social situation.

Answer 15

Norms

Question 16

Any kind of physical or conceptual
phenomenon that carries additional
meaning beyond itself to others who
share in the culture

Answer 16

Symbol

Question 17

Organized set of symbols by which
humans are able to think

Answer 17

Language

Question 18

welcoming, embracing, and
practicing our culture

Answer 18

Enculturation

Question 19

Margaret Mead: 3 Figurative Culture

Answer 19

Prefigurative, Cofigurative, Post figurative

Question 20

old people learn from
young people

Answer 20

Prefigurative

Question 21

learn from your colleague

Answer 21

Cofigurative

Question 22

young people learn
from old people

Answer 22

post figurative

Question 23

elements, patterns, traits, or institutions that are common to all human cultures
worldwide.

Answer 23

cultural universals

Question 24

differences in social behaviors that different cultures exhibit around the world

Answer 24

cultural variations

Question 25

culture within a broader mainstream culture, with its own separate values, practices, and beliefs.

Answer 25

subculture

Question 26

a type of subculture that rejects some of the norms and values of the dominant culture

Answer 26

counterculture

Question 27

practice of viewing and judging someone else’s culture according to the values and beliefs of one’s own culture.

Answer 27

Ethnocentrism

Question 28

Places a priority on understanding other cultures, rather than dismissing them as “strange”or “exotic”.

Answer 28

Cultural Relativism

Question 29

values other cultures more than one’s own culture.

Answer 29

Xenocentrism

Question 30

4 Ways in which Hegemony Operates

Answer 30

1. Past Influence 2. Wide distribution of culture-making resources 3. Cachet 4. Persuasiveness

Question 31

culture is always contested meaning making process

Answer 31

Susan Wrights

Question 32

could be interpreted as either individuals or collectives (e.g. political parties, trades unions, social movements) who exercise agency as opposed to constraining social structures

Answer 32

social actors