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A __________ describes a group of people who share a common territory and a culture

Society

a ________ refers to a "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.

Culture

These are the earliest form of society, they are small and generally with less than 50 members and nomadic.

Hunting and gathering society

They rely on products obtained through the domestication and breeding of animals for transportation and food.

Pastoral society

These societies rely on the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and plants in order to survive.

Horticultural society

They rely on the use of technology in order to cultivate crops in large areas, including wheat, rice, and corn.

Agricultural society

They uses advanced sources of energy to run large machinery which led to industrialization.

Industrial society

Their economy is based on services and technology, not production.

Post-industrial society

ASPECTS OF CULTURE

Tangible ang non- tangible or visible and non-visible

ELEMENTS OF CULTURE

Beliefs, value, people, language, technology, and norms

are conceptions or ideas of people have about what is true in the environment around them

Belief

describe what is appropriate or inappropriate (good or bad; desirable or undesirable; worthy or unworthy) i

Values

live in a culture wherein symbols are used to understand each other.

People

is a shared set of spoken and written symbols. They are basic to communication and transmission of culture.

Language

Storehouse of culture

Language

refers to the application of knowledge and equipment to ease the task of living and maintaining the environment.

Technology

are specific rules/standards to guide for appropriate behavior.

Norms

Defines and tells us things not to do

Proscriptive

Defines and tells us things to do

Prescriptive

FORMS OF SOCIETAL NORMS

Taboos, laws, mores, folk ways

Also known as customs, they are norms for everyday behavior that people follow for the sake of tradition or convenience.

Folkways

They are strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior.

Mores

They are norms that society holds so strongly that violating it results in extreme disgust.

Taboos

They are codified ethics, and formally agreed, written down and enforced by an official law enforcement agency.

Laws

is the tendency to see and evaluate other cultures in terms of one's own race, nation or culture.

Enthnocentrism

Who is the proponent of ethnocentrism?

William Sumner

In this globalized society, one's exposure to cultural practices of others may make one to give preference to the ideas, lifestyle and products of other cultures which is termed by _________ as .

Xenocentrism, John D. Fullmer

is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture.

Cultural relativism

is very complex study. It is divided into different areas according to focus or subject.

Social science

is the holistic "science of man", a science of the totality of human existence.

Anthrolologu

Two broad field of anthropology

Physical and cultural anthropology

or sometimes called Biological Anthropology mainly concerns about how humans emerged and evolved through time.

Physical anthropology

basically concerns the difference of cultures from time to time.

Cultural anthropology

Three main braches of Cultural Anthropology

Archeology, anthropological linguistic, and ethnology

which studies past cultures through tangible or material remains.

Archeology

which is the anthropological study of languages


They explain the difference of languages by culture and how it is constructed,

Anthropological linguistics

is the study of recent or present cultures.

Ethnology

is one of the disciplines that tends to answer the social and political issues in the Modern Period.

Sociology

It is a systematic study of human relationship along with human society and interaction.


Sociology

deals with systems of government and the analysis of political activity and political behavior.

Political science

is generally the most common field of study; its subfields include public opinion, elections, national government, and state, local, or regional government.

Domestic politics

focuses on politics within countries (often grouped into world regions) and analyzes similarities and differences between countries.


Comparative politics

considers the political relationships and interactions between countries, including the causes of war, the formation of foreign policy, international political economy, and the structures that increase or decrease the policy options available to governments.


considers the political relationships and interactions between countries, including the causes of war, the formation of foreign policy, international political economy, and the structures that increase or decrease the policy options available to governments.

International relations

includes classical political philosophy and contemporary theoretical perspectives

Political theory

studies the role of the bureaucracy. It is the field most oriented toward practical applications within political science and is often organized as a separate department that prepares students for careers in the civil service.

Public administration

is a subfield which studies how laws are made and being applied on a certain nation or state.

Constitutional law

examines the passage and implementation of all types of government policies, particularly those related to civil rights, defense, health, education, economic growth, urban renewal, regional development, and environmental protection.

Public policy

7 subfields of political science

Domestic politics, comparative politics, international relations,political theory, public administration, constitutional law, and public policy.