UCSP

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Anthropology is the branch of knowledge that deals with the scientific study of man, his works, his body, his behavior, and values, in time and space

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Anthropology by Palispis, 2007 p.g. 06

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5 Branches of Anthropology

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Archaeology
Linguistic Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Physical Anthropology
Applied Anthropology

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Examines the remains of ancient and historical human populations to promote an understanding of how humans have adapted to their environment and developed.

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Archaeology

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Promotes the study of a society’s culture through its belief systems, practices, and possessions.

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Cultural Anthropology

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Examines the language of a group of people and its relation to their culture.

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Linguistic Anthropology

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Example of Linguistic Antropology

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The Angono Petroglyps

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Looks into the biological development of humans and their contemporary variation.

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Physical Anthropology

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Attempts to solve contemporary problems through the application of theories and approaches of the discipline.

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Applied Anthropology

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Two types of Culture

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Material and Non-material

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Includes all the tangible and visible parts of culture.

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Material Culture

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Includes all the intangible and visible parts of culture.

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Non-Material Culture

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7 aspects of Culture

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Culture is;
Everything
Learned
Shared
Affects the Biology
Adaptive
Maladaptive
Changes

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It is what a person has, does, and thinks as part of society.

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Culture is Everything

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Culture is a set of beliefs, attitudes, and practices that an individual learns through his or her family, school, church, and other social institutions.

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Culture is Learned

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Two types of learning Culture

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Enculturation and Acculuturation

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individual learns the traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices and values.

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Enculturation

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cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture

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Acculturation

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The set of behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that a person possesses is part of a greater collection of values and ideas that is communally owned and practiced by members of a society.

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Culture is Shared

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Some cultures have values on beauty and body. As such, they alter their bodies to fit the physiological norms dictated by culture.

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Culture affects biology

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Examples of Culture affects Biology

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Mursi tribe lip plates and neck elongation

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A culture is a tool for survival that humans use in response to the pressures of their environment

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Culture is adaptive

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Culture can also cause problems for the people who subscribe to it. These problems arise when the environment has changed, and culture remained the same.

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Culture is Maldaptive

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The final characteristic of culture is that it is never static. This dynamism of culture is due to the changing needs of humans as they interpret and survive in their environment.

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Culture changes

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Elements of Culture

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Symbols
Language
Artifacts
Beliefs
Norms
Values

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an object, word, or action that stands for something else with no natural relationship that is culturally defined.

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Symbol

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a structured system of communication.

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Language

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Cultures differ widely in their ______. or standards and expectations for behaving.

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Norms

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Two types of Norms

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Formal Informal

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also called folkways and customs, refer to standards of behavior that are considered less important but still influence how we behave.

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Informal Norms

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also called mores and laws, refer to the standards of behavior considered the most important in any

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Formal norms

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These are another important element of culture and involve judgments of what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable.

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Values

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are material objects, that constitute a society’s material culture.

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Artifacts

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a set of behavioral patterns related to thoughts, manners and actions, which members of society have shared and passed on to succeeding generations

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Beliefs

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A social science discipline that studies human societies, their interactions, and the processes that preserve and change them, the scientific study of society.

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Sociology

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can be defined as a product of human interactions as humans subscribe to the rules of their culture. It is an organization that caters to a human’s need for belongingness in a group.

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Society

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a basic unit of an organization. It involves at least two individuals who are in constant interaction based on their statuses and role.

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Group

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Subdisciplines of Sociology

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Social Organization Social Psychology Social Change Human Ecology Population and Demography

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a social exchange between two or more individuals.

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Social Interaction

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Social Interaction is

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-Space is not an issue. -There can be multiple and simultaneous interactions. -A dialog can have an active end and an inactive end. -Subject-positionality is present in any interaction. -The meanings we ascribe to the actions of others are informed by the values and norms that are upheld in our society.

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refers to a pattern of relationships between and among different groups and individual people.

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Social Organization

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a set of accepted behaviors that define the individual’s responses and inclinations.

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Roles

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humanly devised structures of rules and norms that shape and constrain individual behavior.

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Institutions

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Types of Institutions

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Family Education Government Religion Health Economy

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This is the foundation of every society from which emanates the possible roles, statuses, institutions, and organizations.

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Social Instructure

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Key Factors of Social Change

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The physical environment Technology Isolation and Contact Population Changes

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The scientific study of how an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the presence of others and the internalized social norms that humans are influenced by, even when alone.

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Social Psychology

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Changes in the environment, such as climate change, may require different forms of social organization for humans to survive.

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The physical environment

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Sociologists are interested in studying both “what is” and “what changes.” In this sense, social change refers to any alteration in how a society is organized.

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Social Change

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This area of study is concerned with the study of population number, composition, change, and quality and how these factors influence the larger economic, social, and political systems.

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Population and Demographics

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Advances in _____, such as the car or airplane, can dramatically change the social organization as these new technologies offer new ways for people to interact.

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Technology

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Societies that are cut off from the larger world may change very quickly once they encounter outside cultures and peoples.

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Isolation and Contact

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Migrations and conquest bring new people into new places, which in turn can lead to forms of social change.

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Population changes

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The study of the nature and behavior of a given population and its interaction with the surrounding environment.

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Ecology

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It seeks to address the variance of its implementation in societies with the aim to understand the nature of the concepts and the elements that affect them.

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Political Science

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This field inquires on the types of government policies and the underlying motivations of their enactment and implementation.

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Public Policy

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Subdisciples of Political Science

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Political Theory Comparative Politics International Relations Political Behavior Public Policy Public Administration

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The study of state-to-state relations and the wider margin of globalization and climate change impacts such as terrorism, piracy, and democratization of non-Western territories.

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International Relations

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This field covers the attitudes, knowledge, and actions of an individual in response to political variables such as policies created by the government, the behavior of politicians, and the general political environment.

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Political behavior

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Examines the contemporary application of political concepts such as human rights, equality, peace, and justice.

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Political Theory

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Types of Public Policy

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Republic Act No. 10533 or the “Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013” Republic Act 10931 or the "Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act“ Republic Act 9163 or the “National Service Training Program (NSTP) Act of 2001” Executive Order No. 70 which created The National Task Force to end Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC)

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A branch of Political Science that aims to provide context to the differences in government and political systems.It examines parallelism and divergence of political systems to provide analysis on the factors that make governments efficient and the factors that make them fail.

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Comparative Politics

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This branch examines the various administrative schemes implemented by government officials.

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Public Administration