ucsp w2-w3

Question 1

the three anthropological perspectives

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evolutionist-intellectual perspective
french sociology school perspective
british funcionalist perspective

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three sociologist perspective

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symbolic interactionism perspective
functionalist perspective
conflict perspective

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explains that death and belief in soul and the spirits play important roles

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evolutionist-intellectual perspective

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is led by Emile Durkheim suggests that society can sustain and reproduce
by themselves

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french sociology school perspective

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explains anxiety caused by the rationally uncontrollable happenings as the basic motivation for the emergence of religious faith

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british functionalist school perspective

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explains that people attach meanings to symbols and they act according to their
subjective interpretation of the symbols

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symbolic interactionism perspective

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believes that each aspect of society is interdependent and
contributes to society’s functioning as a whole

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functionalist perspective

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through Karl Max’s writing on struggles, shows competition for scarce resources and how
the elite control the poor and the weak.

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conflict perspective

Question 9

It is what a person has, does and thinks as part of society. This implies all of person’s belief system, set of behaviors and material possessions

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culture is everything

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culture that includes all tangible and visible parts of culture, which includes clothes, foods and even buildings

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material culture

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culture that includes all intangible parts of culture, which consist of values, ideas and knowledge

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nonmaterial culture

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culture is 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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is a process of learning your own culture

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enculturation

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is a process of accommodating desirable traits from other culture

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acculturation

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culture has been lost and even cultural trait itself is in the process of being forgotten.

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deculturation

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This implies that a particular behavior cannot be considered as a culture if there is only one person practicing it. Culture is shared intergenerational

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culture is shared

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Humans are born into cultures that have values on beauty and body. As such, they alter their bodies to fit physiological norms that are dictated by their culture

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culture affects biology

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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 environment is change and culture has remained the same

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culture is maladaptive

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

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culture changes

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it refers to all those ideas held in society that are considered good, acceptable, and right

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norms and values

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the socially approved behaviors that have no moral underpinning. These stem from and organize casual interactions, and emerge out of repetition and routines

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folkways

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the norms related to moral conventions. People feel strongly about mores, and violating them typically results in disapproval or ostracizing

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mores

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behaviors that are absolutely forbidden in specific culture

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taboos

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consists of the rules and regulation that are implemented by the state

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laws

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is an individual’s position in his or her society, which carries with it a set of defined rights and obligations

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status

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the sets of expectation from people who occupy a particular status

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roles

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is the act of following the roles and goals of one’s society

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conformity

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the act of violating the prescribed social norms

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deviance

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is the idea that a person’s beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another

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cultural relativism

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is a term used to describe several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different peoples and their own particular cultures

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moral relativism or ethical relativism

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refers to the tendency of each society to place its own culture at the center of things. It is the practice of comparing other cultural practices with those of one’s own and automatically finding those practices to be inferior

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ethnocentrism

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refers to the preference of the foreign. It is characterized by a strong belief that one’s own products, styles or ideas is inferior to those which originated elsewhere

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xenocentrism