Key terms social anthroplogy

Agency

The capacity for individuals to act in meaningful ways that affect their own lives and the lives of others .Agency may be constrained by class,gender,religion and social class

Age

Chronological measure of tracking people’s development

Class

Division of people based on social and economic status

Community

A group of people who share a common intrest, locality or social structure

Comparative

Comparison of the diverse and various ways people make sense of their world

Cultural relativism

Not making value judgements about cultural differences ;understanding a cultural in its own context

Ethnicity

A social group is connected by shared cultural understanding

Ethnocentrism

The tendency to view the world only from the perspective of one's own culture; the inability to understand cultures different from one's own.

Gender

The culturally constructed distinctions between males and females.

Role

The dynamic aspect of status:a personʼs actual behaviour within the context of that status.

Status

The position a person has within a social system -this may be ascribed or achieved .People status are multiples are multiple and come with set of role and expectations ,duties that the person is expected to perform

Personhood

Culturally contructed the concept of individual human self

Sexuality

A central feature of being human that is highly ideavidualized .It includes sexual feelings ,thoughts,attractions

Structure

An abstract concept derived from all social instituition and social relations existing in society .Gnerally seen as a resilient ,regulating aspcet of society that constrain actions of its memebr