Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

Flashcards about Culture, Society, and Politics

Culture, Society and Politics

Major terms of Social Sciences used to explain disciplines like political science, history, psychology, and economics.

Intertextual Concepts

The interrelationship between fundamental ideas of their origins, researched and explained by sociologist and anthropologist.

Culture

A powerful defining characteristic of human groups that shapes our perceptions, behaviors, and relationships.

Culture

A lifestyle; the epitome of the manner by which we think and get things done.

Culture

Human-made environment which includes all the material and nonmaterial products of group life that are transmitted from one generation to the next.

Material Culture

Articles that are identified with the material part of our life like our dress, food, and family goods.

Non-Material Culture

Ideas, standards, musings and belief.

Anthropologist Philosophical Perspectives

Views about culture contributed by anthropologists with thorough understanding and analysis.

Culture is learned and acquired

Gained as in there are sure practices which are obtained through heredity and from relatives, from the gathering and the general public wherein they live

Culture is shared by a group of people

An idea or activity might be called culture in case it is shared and accepted or rehearsed by a gathering of individuals.

Culture is cumulative

Different knowledge exemplified in culture can be passed starting with one age then onto the next age, increasingly more information is added in the specific culture as the time elapses by.

Culture Changes

There is information, musings or customs that are lost as new social qualities are added. There are potential outcomes of social changes inside the specific culture over the long haul.

Culture is dynamic

No culture stays on the perpetual state. Culture is changing continually as novel thoughts and new procedures are added over the long haul altering or changing the old ways.

Culture gives us a scope of passable standards of conduct

It involves how a movement ought to be directed, how an individual should act properly.

Culture is diverse

It is a framework that has a few commonly reliant parts. Albeit these parts are isolated, they are related with each other framing culture as entirety.

Culture is ideational

Often it sets out an optimal example of conduct that are expected to be trailed by people in order to acquire social acknowledgment from individuals with a similar culture.

Society

Comprises of individuals who share a region, who communicate with one another, and who share a culture.

Society

A gathering of individuals whose individuals associate, dwell in a quantifiable region, and offer a culture.

Society in conceptual terms

Organization of relationships between individuals or between gatherings

Society in substantial terms

Assortment of individuals or an association of people

Society is Abstract

In case society is seen as web of social relationships, it is particular from actual element which we can see and see through faculties.

Likeness and Difference in Society

Involves both likeness and difference. If people are all exactly alike, merely alike, their relationships would be limited.

Cooperation & Conflict in Society

Collaboration and struggle are general components in human existence. Society depends on cooperation but since of interior contrasts, there is struggle likewise among its individuals.

Society is a Process Not a Product

Exists just as a period arrangement. It is becoming, not a being; an interaction and not an item

Society is a system of stratification

Gives an arrangement of definition of situations with classes that every individual has a moderately steady and unmistakable situation in the social construction.

Politics

A subject which dealt with all the exercises and undertakings of the city state.

Politics

The art of government, the activity of control inside the society through the settling on and authorization of aggregate choices

Use or threat of use of legal force

Allows the legal authority to use force. If David Easton speaks of “authoritative allocation of values”, Dahl of “Power, “rule” and authority”.

Interdependence of Parts

When the properties of one component in a system change, all the other components and the system as a whole are affected.