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A __________ describes a group of people who share a common territory and a culture |
Society |
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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 |
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These are the earliest form of society, they are small and generally with less than 50 members and nomadic. |
Hunting and gathering society |
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They rely on products obtained through the domestication and breeding of animals for transportation and food. |
Pastoral society |
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These societies rely on the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and plants in order to survive. |
Horticultural society |
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They rely on the use of technology in order to cultivate crops in large areas, including wheat, rice, and corn. |
Agricultural society |
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They uses advanced sources of energy to run large machinery which led to industrialization. |
Industrial society |
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Their economy is based on services and technology, not production. |
Post-industrial society |
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ASPECTS OF CULTURE |
Tangible ang non- tangible or visible and non-visible |
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ELEMENTS OF CULTURE |
Beliefs, value, people, language, technology, and norms |
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are conceptions or ideas of people have about what is true in the environment around them |
Belief |
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describe what is appropriate or inappropriate (good or bad; desirable or undesirable; worthy or unworthy) i |
Values |
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live in a culture wherein symbols are used to understand each other. |
People |
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is a shared set of spoken and written symbols. They are basic to communication and transmission of culture. |
Language |
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Storehouse of culture |
Language |
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refers to the application of knowledge and equipment to ease the task of living and maintaining the environment. |
Technology |
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are specific rules/standards to guide for appropriate behavior. |
Norms |
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Defines and tells us things not to do |
Proscriptive |
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Defines and tells us things to do |
Prescriptive |
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FORMS OF SOCIETAL NORMS |
Taboos, laws, mores, folk ways |
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Also known as customs, they are norms for everyday behavior that people follow for the sake of tradition or convenience. |
Folkways |
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They are strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior. |
Mores |
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They are norms that society holds so strongly that violating it results in extreme disgust. |
Taboos |
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They are codified ethics, and formally agreed, written down and enforced by an official law enforcement agency. |
Laws |
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is the tendency to see and evaluate other cultures in terms of one's own race, nation or culture. |
Enthnocentrism |
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Who is the proponent of ethnocentrism? |
William Sumner |
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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 |
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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 |
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is very complex study. It is divided into different areas according to focus or subject. |
Social science |
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is the holistic "science of man", a science of the totality of human existence. |
Anthrolologu |
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Two broad field of anthropology |
Physical and cultural anthropology |
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or sometimes called Biological Anthropology mainly concerns about how humans emerged and evolved through time. |
Physical anthropology |
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basically concerns the difference of cultures from time to time. |
Cultural anthropology |
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Three main braches of Cultural Anthropology |
Archeology, anthropological linguistic, and ethnology |
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which studies past cultures through tangible or material remains. |
Archeology |
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which is the anthropological study of languages They explain the difference of languages by culture and how it is constructed, |
Anthropological linguistics |
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is the study of recent or present cultures. |
Ethnology |
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is one of the disciplines that tends to answer the social and political issues in the Modern Period. |
Sociology |
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It is a systematic study of human relationship along with human society and interaction. |
Sociology |
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deals with systems of government and the analysis of political activity and political behavior. |
Political science |
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is generally the most common field of study; its subfields include public opinion, elections, national government, and state, local, or regional government. |
Domestic politics |
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focuses on politics within countries (often grouped into world regions) and analyzes similarities and differences between countries. |
Comparative politics |
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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 |
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includes classical political philosophy and contemporary theoretical perspectives |
Political theory |
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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 |
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is a subfield which studies how laws are made and being applied on a certain nation or state. |
Constitutional law |
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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 |
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7 subfields of political science |
Domestic politics, comparative politics, international relations,political theory, public administration, constitutional law, and public policy. |