Week 2

Question 1

constituting a fairly large number of people who are living in the same territory

Answer 1

society

Question 2

relatively independent of people outside their area and participate in a common culture.

Answer 2

society

Question 3

three characters of society

Answer 3

omnipotence (all-powerful), omniscience (all-knowing), omnipresence (everywhere)

Question 4

Library creates, collects, stores, retrieves, and manipulates human memories

Answer 4

society as a god (omniscience)

Question 5

Agent occupy and control all the influential position in its domain.

Answer 5

society as a god (omnipotence)

Question 6

Spies are present in the four corners of its territory

Answer 6

society as a god (omnipresence)

Question 7

Symbol system language rules and use of language for communication

Answer 7

society as a fact (omniscience)

Question 8

Machineries and armory of social controls.

Answer 8

society as a fact (omnipotence)

Question 9

Socialization agents are present everywhere, even at the start of a person’s life

Answer 9

society as a fact (omnipresence)

Question 10

Language, symbol arts, science

Answer 10

examples of omniscience

Question 11

Laws, norms, values, system, religion, education

Answer 11

examples of omnipotence

Question 12

Family, peers, school, church, government

Answer 12

examples of omnipresence

Question 13

perceived as the matrix of society, the totality of duties, rights, division of labor, norms, social control etc.

Answer 13

social structure

Question 14

set of social relations which are regularly actualized and thus reproduced as a system through interaction.

Answer 14

social system

Question 15

3 levels of social system

Answer 15

1. Dyadic Relationship
2. Household
3. Local Community

Question 16

ego-centered set of relationships

Answer 16

networks

Question 17

measure of social complexity in a society

Answer 17

scale

Question 18

the internet; transcends dualism such as local/global and small/large scale. Can be based on close interpersonal relationships even if the participants are scattered around the world.

Answer 18

non-localized networks

Question 19

classificatory scheme that runs along two axes; grid and group dimension

Answer 19

Mary Douglas

Question 20

persons society classified according to their degree of social cohesion

Answer 20

group dimension

Question 21

describes the degree of shared classification of knowledge

Answer 21

grid dimension

Question 22

theory of structuration, actors do not act entirely on their own whim: there are bound by structural precondition for their acts.

Answer 22

Anthony Giddens

Question 23

necessary conditions for action as the cumulative result of totality of action.

Answer 23

Theory of Structuration (Anthony Giddens)

Question 24

society thought as a kind of organism

Answer 24

Structural Functionalism

Question 25

point out the functions of social institution to show how they supported and contributed to the maintenance of society as a whole.

Answer 25

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

Question 26

social structure and social organization

Answer 26

Raymond Firth

Question 27

According to Raymond Firth, is an established pattern of rule, customs, statuses and social institution

Answer 27

social structure

Question 28

According to Raymond Firth, defined as the dynamic aspect of structures, what people actually do, their decisions, and pattern of action within the framework of structure.

Answer 28

Social Organization

Question 29

not absolute but relative to a kind of social context or a set of activities.

Answer 29

Systematic boundaries

Question 30

first anthropologist to use the expression social network

Answer 30

John Barnes

Question 31

hierarchically organized through public administration

Answer 31

territorially delineated

Question 32

many mutually dependent but formally independent entities.

Answer 32

economic field

Question 33

had no unit or boundaries had no coordinating organization, made up by ties of friendship and acquaintance

Answer 33

social field

Question 34

Group membership

Answer 34

A. Individual, Occupational Group, Trade Union, Political Party B. Nuclear Family, Hometown, Country, Nation