UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS (UCSP)
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CULTURAL RELATIVISM
- This view believes that every aspects of a culture can be understood
within the context in which the culture has been formed.
MULTICULTURALISM
- Ideology that acknowledges and promotes cultural diversity within
society.
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
- A framework in sociological theory regarding social behavior that
emphasizes linguistic or gestural communication as well as its
subjective understanding.
IDENTITY
- It is the distinctive characteristics that defines an individual and
is shaped by one’s membership to a particular group.
SOCIETY
- A term used by anthropologist to refer to a group of people living in
a community who share a culture and belief.
BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- It is the study of the past and present evolution of the human
species and is especially concerned with understanding the causes of
present human diversity.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
- It examines how the government functions and how decisions and
policies are made.
HORTICULTURAL AND PASTORAL SOCIETY
- A type of society wherein their economy is based on producing and
maintaining crops and farmland.
ETHNOCENTRISM
- Diminishes or invalidates other ways of life and creates a distorted
of one’s own.
SOCIOLOGY
- A social science that studies the society and consequences of human
behavior.
RELATIVISTIC APPROACH
- Considers cultures as equal. Holds that there are no “superior” and
“inferior” cultures, and each is unique.
MATERIAL CULTURE
- A type of culture that refers to tangible objects produced, shared,
and utilized within a society such as tools, artwork, weapon, and
toys.
STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
- Operates on the assumption that society is a stable and orderly
system claiming that every society has certain structures that exist
to fulfill some set of necessary functions.
SOVEREIGNTY
- Element of state which denotes the supreme power or the final
authority from which there is no appeal.
XENOCENTRISM
- Considers their cultures as inferior to others.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Branch of science which treats the foundations of the state and the
principle of government.
NORMS
- Unwritten rules of behavior that are considered acceptable in a group
or society.
ANTHROPOLOGY
- It came from two Greek words Anthropos – “man” and logos – “study”. A
science of mankind.
ETHNOCENTRIC APPROACH
- The belief that one’s native culture is superior to other culture.
CULTURE
- A complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, norms,
attitudes, artifacts, symbol, knowledge, and everything that a person
learns and shares as a member of society.