LESSON 2: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: SOCIETY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Flashcards

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It highlights the EXTERNAL INFLUENCES that facilitate or constrain human actions.

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SOCIOLOGY

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It underlines the role of CULTURAL STRUCTURES in organizing HUMAN INTERACTIONS.

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ANTHROPOLOGY

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It focuses on POWER RELATIONS and how this produces layered modalities of opportunities among social actors.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

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It is the study of SOCIETY, SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS, social life, social class, and social institutions.

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SOCIOLOGY

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Refers to a person’s SPECIFIC ECONOMIC and POLITICAL LOCATION.

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SOCIAL MAP

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An AMERICAN SOCIAL CRITIC who argued that individuals can still transcend the limitations posed by their respective social locations THROUGH SOCIAL IMAGINATION.

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CHARLES WRIGHT MILLS (1959)

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It is a QUALITY OF MIND that allows a thinker to understand the relationships between the troubles of individual people and the general social issues.

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SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION

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Where was sociology born? Name three countries.

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It was born in Europe (Germany, England, and France)

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A FRENCH PHILOSOPHER, often called the “FATHER OF SOCIOLOGY”. He believed that all societies develop and progress through the following stages.

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AUGUSTE COMTE

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Comte viewed the science of sociology as consisting of two branches; what are these two branches?

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Dynamic and Statics

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A French Philosopher AND SOCIOLOGIST who stressed the importance of studying social facts (social phenomenon), or patterns of behavior characteristic of a particular group

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EMILE DURKHEIM

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A GERMAN SOCIOLOGIST who argued that sociologists must also consider people’s interpretations of events - not just the events themselves.

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MAX WEBER

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It allows sociologists to mentally PUT THEMSELVES INTO “the other person’s shoes” and thus obtain an “interpretive understanding” of the meanings of individuals behaviors..

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VERSTEHEN

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A GERMAN PHILOSOPHER AND ECONOMISTS who believed that societies GREW AND CHANGED as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production.

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KARL MARX

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It is an economic system characterized by PRIVATE or corporate ownership of goods and the means to produce them, grew in many nations.

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CAPITALISM

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It is an economic system under which there is NO PRIVATE OR CORPORATE OWNERSHIP.

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It is a social theory that posits that society is in a state of perpetual conflict because of competition for limited resources.

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CONFLICT THEORY

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A 19th-century Englishman who compared society to a living organism with interdependent parts (Functionalist Theory)

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HERBERT SPENCER

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An American Sociologist whose theory of socialization was called the “looking-glass self.”

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CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

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They produced the functional principles of Symbolic Interactionism Theory.

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GEORGE MEAD, HERBERT BLUMER, AND CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

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-It is the study, analysis, and description of humanity’s past and present.
- Study of humankind

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It occurs when resources given in a society are distributed unevenly.

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SOCIAL INEQUALITY

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They often seek to promote understanding between groups by “Translating” each cultured to the other.

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ANTHROPOLOGIST

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A research design or a specific research method where people are observed in their natural environmental in a formal research setting.

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Means a range of different societies or people of different origins, religions.
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
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Refers to the gaps between the people as measured by the presence or absence of certain socially desirable traits.
SOCIAL DIVERSITY
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It is the systematic study of government and politics.
POLITICA SCIENCE
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The determining factors in politics.
Power and Resources
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They are engaged in revealing the relationship underlying political events and conditions from the world of politics.
POLITICAL SCIENTISTS
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They are forms of interaction meditated by the use and deployment of authority and political influence.
POWER RELATIONS
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Who is the father of political science.
ARISTOTLE