UCSP MST Flashcards
(54 cards)
-Collection of people in a specific territory who share the same norms, values, and culture
-these people work together, with the guidance of social norms to maintain harmony
-SINGLE FUNCTIONING ORGANISM
SOCIETY
Differences in social behaviors that different cultures exhibit around the world
Cultural variations and social differences
-physical attributes-body characteristics notably sex organ which are distinct in majority of individuals
-biologically determined by genes and hormones
-relatively fixed/constant through time and across cultures
SEX
-composite of attitudes of men and women (masculine/feminine)
-learned through family, education, religion, and is an acquired identity
-it is socialized
GENDER
-Chromosome structures, xx for female and xy for male
-hormone production and internal and external reproductive organ
Biological differences
Two types of gender
1, masculine
2. Feminine
Culturally assigned tasks and activities to sexes
Gender roles
Category that groups people into similar economics, social, cultural, and political status
SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS
Wealthy industrials with big corporations andowners of large plantation of haciendas
Upper, 10%
Proffesionals, skilled, and semi skilled workers in offices, factories, or farms
Middle, 20%
Laborers and unskiledd workers
Lower, 70%
-Owner of production of monetary, land, and technological capital
-dont work but accumulate wealth
Bourgeois
-Do not own the means of production
-must work and sell their labor power in order to survive
Proletariat
Refers to financial resources that and individual possesses
Economic capital
Collection of an individuals social relations with people that may help in the future
Social capital
Combination of knowledge, behaviors, and skills that an individual acquired to demonstrate once cultural completence and determine ones social status in society
Cultural capital
SOURCE of knowledgelike books, and computers
Material
Academic degrees, job, titles, religious titles, and other social roles
Non-material
Specific group of people with similar characteristics and a distinct cultural identity
Ethnic group
The shared culture of these groups, which includes cultural heritage, language or dialect, religion, traditions and rituals, norms, values, and beliefs
Ethnicity
Socially constructed category attributec to people woth the same biological traits or attributes
Race
4 major race in the world
Caucasian
Mongloid
Negroid
Australoid
Outdated historical grouping of various people
Australoid
-Constructed based on cultural traits
-Diverse
Ethnicity
