UCSP Flashcards
This is composed of a group of people living together in a certain geographical location sharing similar culture.
Society
Who defined culture as the “complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of society”?
Edward Burnett (E.B.) Tylor
This type of culture are physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture.
Material Culture
This type of culture are the society’s ideas, attitudes, and values.
Non-material Culture
This refers to the differences in social behaviors that cultures exhibit around the world.
Cultural Variation
This refers to the situation where people are associated into.
Social Differences
This refers to any significant alteration over time in behavioral patterns and cultural values and norms.
Social Change
This refers to the time that elapses between introduction of a new item of material culture and its acceptance as part of non-material culture.
Cultural Lag
Who defined cultural lag as the time that elapses between introduction of a new item of material culture and its acceptance as part of non-material culture?
William F. Ogburn
This defines how to behave in accordance with what society has defined as good, right, and important, and most members of the society adhere to them.
Norms
This type of norm is established, written rules.
Formal Norms
This type of norm are casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to.
Informal Norms
A norm engrained so deeply that even thinking about violating it evokes strong feelings or disgust, horror, or repulsion for most people.
Taboos
The inability to adequately understand other cultures.
Ethnocentrism
The preconceived notion not based on actual experience. The beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes someone holds about a group.
Prejudice
The extreme form of pride and loyalty to one’s country.
Extreme Nationalism or Ultranationalism
Discrimination directed against someone from a different race.
Racism
Refers to the preference for the culture, ideas, or products of someone else’s culture rather than one’s own.
Xenocentrism
The science of people, such as groups, firms, societies, or economies, and their individual or collective behaviors.
Social Science
The study of people throughout the world, their evolutionary history, how they behave, adapt to different environments, communicate, and socialize with one another.
Anthropology
A subfield of anthropology in which it examines or past ways of life through the interpretation of material culture, organic remains, written records, and oral traditions.
Archaeology
A subfield of anthropology that deals with the evolution of the human body, mind and behavior as inferred through study of fossils and comparisons with behavior and anatomy of other primate species.
Biological/Physical Anthropology
A subfield of anthropology hallmarked by the concept of culture itself.
Cultural Anthropology
A subfield of anthropology that studies the role of language in the social lives of individuals and communities.
Linguistic Anthropology
Who describes political science as the analyses of the state and the relations that people have with the government.
John Jacobsohn
She simplifies political science as the relation to “be as simple as paying a fine for a traffic violation, or as complicated as running for the position of barangay chairman.”
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
The origin, development, and operation of political system.
Political Science
A community of persons more or less numerous, permanently occupying a definite portion of territory, having a government of their own which the great body of inhabitant render obedience, and enjoying freedom from external control.
State
What are the elements of a state?
People
Territory
Government
Sovereignty
This element of state refers to the inhabitants living within the state.
People
This element of state refers to the fixed position of land, sea, and air which the jurisdiction of the state extends.
Territory
This element of state refers to the agency through which the will of the state is formulated, expressed, and carried out.
Government
This element of state refers to the supreme power of the state to command and enforce obedience to its will from people within its jurisdiction to have freedom from foreign control.
Sovereignty
Study of groups and group interactions, societies, and social interactions.
Sociology
Who explained that sociological imagination are individual problems, or private troubles are rooted in social or public issues, what is happening in the social world outside of one’s personal control.
C. Wright Mills (1959)
The vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society.
Sociological Imagination
Allow sociologists to analyze social phenomena at different at different levels and from different perspectives.
Sociological Perspectives
This approach looks at both social structure and social functions.
Functionalism/Structural-Functionalist Perspective
A French sociologist that believed that society is a complex system of interrelated and interdependent parts that work together to maintain stability.
Emile Durkheim