Preliminaries Flashcards
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Refers to biological differences that distinguishes humans and other animals into 2 main categories: male and female
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Sex
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Encompasses all the social, cultural, psychological characteristics that a culture assigns to males and females
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Gender
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Defined as culturally assigned tasks and activities to sexes
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Gender Role
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Propagates the worldview that heterosexuality is the norm
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Heteronormative Society
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Refers to a category that groups people with the similar economic, social, cultural, and political status
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Socioeconomic Class
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In this status the basis of ranking people only include income in the family
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Economic Status
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Jobs that are viewed to be prestigious and are attained with degrees or more
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White-collar Jobs
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These jobs are socially stigmatized and invites disapproval from societal members
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Blue-collar Jobs
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Determines once social class and status in their society where higher class have more job opportunities than lower class
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Indian Caste System
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The Priest
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Brahmins
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King, Ruler, Warriors
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Kshatriyas
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Merchants, Craftsmen, and Skilled Workers
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Vaisyas
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Unskilled workers, and Servants
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Sudra
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Untouchables, Outcasts
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Dalits
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Highest socioeconomic class during the Spanish colonial era
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Peninsulares
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Pure Spanish Blood born in the Philippines
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Insulares
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Filipinos who studied abroad
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Ilustrados
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Fourth in the hierarchy during the Spanish Era
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Mestizos
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Native Filipinos born and raised in the Philippines
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Indios
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Wealthy industrialists, Owners of haciendas, etc.
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Upper Class
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Professional, Skilled and Semi-skilled, Workers in Offices, Factories or Farms
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Middle Class
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Laborers, and Unskilled Workers
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Lower Class
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Class that owns the “means of production”
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Bourgeois
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They don’t own any means of production and must work to survive
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Proletariats
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Refers to financial resources that an individual possesses
Economic Capital
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Collection or a network of an individual's social relations with people that may be of help in the future
Social Capital
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Combination of knowledge, behaviors, and skills that an individual has acquired to demonstrate once cultural competence and in turn, determine one's social status in society
Cultural Capital
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American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist known for her theory on moral development and gender
Carol Gilligan
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Specific group of people having certain similar characteristics and a distinct cultural identity
Ethnic Group
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Used to denote the shared culture of ethnic groups.
Ethnicity
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Socially constructed category attributed to people who share the same biological traits or attributes
Race
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Set of beliefs and ritual practices related to symbols considered as sacred
Religion
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The belief that spiritual forces reside in natural elements of the physical world
Animism
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Collective groups of people who are singled out, distinguished, and treated as subordinates or inferior by the dominant or majority group
Minority Group
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Prohibits discrimination against race, ethnicities, and religious affiliations
Anti Ethnic or Racial Profiling and Discrimination Act of 2011
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Brazilian labor activist and conservationist known for establishing unions against deforestation and believed that preserving forest reserves will help peasants and indigenous communities
Francisco Alves Mendez Jr. or Chico Mendez
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Refers to a condition wherein loss of physical functioning, impairments in intellectual, social, and mental processes hinder normal growth and development of an individual
Disability
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Concept that describes how an individual's specific abilities and functioning
Exceptionality
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Oversimplified assumptions formed to describe a group having the same label
Stereotypes
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Retired famous wheelchair tennis player from Netherlands
Esther Vergeer
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Simply defined as a person's belonging to a specific nation or nationstate
Nationality
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Determined by the parent's nationality, implemented in the Philippines
Jus Sanguinis (Right of Blood)
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One's nationality is determined by the territory or land in which the child is born, implemented in the USA
Jus Soli (Right of Soil)
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Legal process of acquiring citizenship and nationality from a different state
Naturalization
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This concept allows a person to assume the host nation's nationality in order to afford the same protection being given to original national
Political Asylum
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Theoretical Physicist who was known for his development of the theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
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Defined by the categories we possess, assigned to us by society at large
Sociality
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Defined as the customary beliefs, social forms, and traits that defines a specific racial, religious or social group
Culture
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Latin Word "Socius" meaning comrade, companion or friend
Society
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A group of individuals involved in social interaction or sharing the same geographical or social territory
Society
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From the Greek word "Politika" meaning affairs of the cities where achieving and exercising positions for governance over a community is evident
Politics
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Created and have been used to have a firm grip of phenomenon
Concepts
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Allows us to form other concepts or relate it to each other or even deconstruct old ones and replace with new
Concept as Conceptual Tools
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Allow the discovery of new aspects of a phenomenon and can be conceived as a "means" rather than an "end"
Concept as heuristic tools
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A person's standards of behavior and are considered judgement of what is important in life. Also a criteria people use in their lives
Values
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Something one accepts as true or real, form firmly held opinion or conviction regardless of the lack of verifiable evidence
Beliefs
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Forces on the ubiquity of social forces in unlikely forms: sex, gender, religion, and the like. "Study of human social life, groups and society"
Sociology
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Represents a constellation of unseen yet powerful forces influencing the behavior of individuals and institutions
Social Forces
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Person's specific economic and political location
Social Map
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Father of Sociology and believed that society operates according to certain laws
Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
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Likened society to an organism with a life and vitality of its own; "Survival of the Fittest"
Herbert Spencer (1820 -1903)
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"Niche Problematique"
Emile Durkheim (1858 -1917)
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Has distinctive characteristics and determinants which are capable of holding an external constraints on the individual
Social Fact
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"The Communist Manifesto"; Reiterated that political revolution was vital in the evolutionary process of society
Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
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"The most important proponent of interpretative sociology" Believed that a "sympathetic" understanding was essential to the understanding of the behaviors of others
Max Webber (1864 - 1920)
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Governed by the meaning shared and co-created by social actors in every interaction or encounter
Social Interactionism
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Suggests that humans tend to live or do certain things on the basis of other people's thinking
Symbolic Interactionism
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Greek word "Anthropos and Logos" which studies humans and the respective cultures they belong, considered the father or grandfather of all social sciences and behavioral sciences
Anthropology
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"Father of American Anthropology" believed that the same method could be applied in measuring culture and human behavior including their uniqueness of their culture
Franz Boas
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Indigenous rights like traditional cultural preservation and ancestral domain of the American tribes
Alfred Kroeber and William Henry
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Focuses on human diversity around the world
Social Science
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Refers to gaps between people as measured by the presence or absence of certain socially desires
Social Diversity
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The division of society
Caste System
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Gives emphasis to birth as well as wealth and possessions
Estate
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Economic basis wherein the master shows power over a slave
Slavery
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Systematic study of government and politics
Political Science
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Ability to influence others giving the authority to lead
Power
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Attained through obedience on rules set by leaders
Order
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Feltin a society with order
Justice
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Carries out the laws but cannot make laws to make themselves powerful
Executive Branch
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Part that makes laws
Legislative Branch
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Responsible for making sure that criminals are punished
Judicial Branch
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Founder of modern political philosophy
Thomas Hobbes
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Father of Liberalism
John Locke
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Made the three branches of the government
Baron De Montesquieu
