Midterm

Question 1

Tool to grasp the complexity of the phenomenon it represents and a means to explore its many other dimensions hidden by its normative use

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Society as a Concept

Question 2

Society is seen as an outcome of multiple interactions of people upon which succeeding interactions are made meaningful and possible

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Society as a Facticity

Question 3

The quality of having unlimited or very great power

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Omnipotence

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State of knowing everything

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Omniscience

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State of being widespread or constantly encountered

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Omnipresence

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Allows us to see opportunities where there are none and create one if need be

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Sociological Awareness

Question 7

According to him that the sociological perspective enjoins us to see the coordinates of our social maps.

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C. W Mills

Question 8

Society is seen as a complex system whose parts function and work in harmony, bringing stability in the process

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Structural Functionalism

Question 9

Considered the founding father of modern sociology

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Robert Merton

Question 10

The intended, recognized, and obvious and is explicitly states and understood by participants in the relevant action

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Manifest Function

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Unintended and unrecognized Function

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Latent Function

Question 12

Undesirable effects of a social pattern on the operation of society, may result bu society has the ability to adjust

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Social Dysfunction

Question 13

Focuses on forces in society that promote competition and change, assumes that society is an arena

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Conflict Theory

Question 14

Focuses on how people make sense of the world on how they experience and define what they and others are doing

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Symbolic Interactionism

Question 15

Essential in the everyday conduct of the member of the society

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Rules

Question 16

These are easily seen and are observed and obeyed

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Written Rules

Question 17

Rules that aren’t necessarily laws but follow them on a day to day basis

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Unwritten Rules

Question 18

He said that culture is that complex whole including knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits

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Edward B. Taylor

Question 19

Refers to the mass produced and mass mediated forms of culture that emerged in the 20th century

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Mass Culture

Question 20

Occurs when a material culture innovates in the society but non-material culture remains stagnant

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Cultural Lag

Question 21

Shared way of living of a subgroup in a society

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Subculture

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Type of subculture which rejects some of the norms acceptable to the general public

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Counterculture

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Process of passing culture from one generation to the next

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Enculturation

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Members of society learn the behavior that is acceptable to the society and individuals internalize these values and beliefs

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Socialization

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Learning culture of another society

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Acculturation

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Individuals who are not able to undergo the socialization process

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Feral Children

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Means of communicating ideas or feelings by use of signs, sounds, gestures, etc.

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Language

Question 28

Comprised of signs, symbols, gestures with meanings shared by society differing from one culture to the next

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Language

Question 29

American Linguist and anthropologist who is well known for his study on the Piraha people of the Brazilian Amazon jungle

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Daniel Everett

Question 30

Refers to anything that is being passed down from one generation to another

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Heritage

Question 31

The legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group that are inherited from past generations

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Cultural Heritage

Question 32

Material forms of cultural heritage

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Tangible Heritage

Question 33

Can be easily transported forms of cultural heritage

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Movable Cultural Heritage

Question 34

These includes structures such as monuments, buildings, etc.

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Immovable Cultural Heritage

Question 35

Considered as part of a group's culture such as reefs, terraces, etc.

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Natural Heritage

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Represents the non material aspect of cultural heritage

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Intangible Heritage

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Aid in the preservation of one's cultural heritage, a cycle

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Heritage Cycle

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English historian and Archaeologist who has worked for the English Heritage and the Museum of London

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Simon Thurley

Question 39

Tendency to believe that one's culture is superior from other cultures

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Ethnocentrism

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German-American Anthropologist introduced the cultural relativisim

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Franz Boas

Question 41

Suggests that every culture is equal

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Cultural Relativism

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Insider's perspective where studying cultural groups and practices leads to a comprehensive understanding

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Emic Perspective

Question 43

Used when a researcher uses an outsider's or an observer's perspective in understanding things

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Etic Perspective