Defining Culture, Society, and Politics

A series of fill-in-the-blank flashcards covering the definitions of culture, society, and politics, as well as major sociological, anthropological, and political science theories and concepts.

A __________ is a community of people with common traditions, practices, institutions, and intuitions and with a collective understanding of activities and interests.

society

The commonly acceptable behavior shaped by society is called a __________, while neglecting to follow these behaviors is referred to as __________.

norm; deviancy

__________ is the embodiment of a society's way of life, including tangible activities or what is called evidence of tangible heritage.

Culture

The relationship between individuals within a society, often involving power and leadership, is called __________.

politics

The study of society and culture falls under the field of __________, which explains the social features and dynamics of humans.

social science

The discipline of __________ investigates personality and individual and social behavior, while __________ describes people's interactions with their environments.

Psychology; Geography

The American sociologist __________ defined sociology as the study of social aggregates, groups, and institutions and the causes and consequences of change.

Albert J. Reiss ($1968$)

Max Weber defined __________ as the science whose object is to interpret the meaning of social action and provide a causal explanation of its effects.

sociology

The concept of __________, created by C. Wright Mills, is an awareness to comprehend the links between personal troubles and wider social issues.

sociological imagination

Auguste Comte derived the term sociology from the Latin word __________ (society) and the Greek word __________ (to study).

socius; logos

Emile Durkheim, considered the __________, established the discipline by studying social facts in his book, The Rules of Sociological Method ($1859$).

Father of Sociology

Social facts have __________ reality, meaning they are unique and created by individual conscience fused together.

sui generis

Durkheim described __________ as the low sense of direction felt by an individual when social controls become ineffective.

anomie

The __________ theory states that society is a system of interconnected parts that work as one to maintain harmony and balance.

structural functionalism

In structural functionalism, __________ functions are intended and recognized, whereas __________ functions are unintended and unrecognized consequences.

manifest; latent

The __________ theory, originated by Karl Marx, posits that society is in a constant state of conflict as members compete for limited resources.

conflict

In conflict theory, Marx called the capitalists the __________ and the workers the __________.

bourgeoisie; proletariat

The __________ theory sees human beings as living in a world of shared meanings communicated through objects or actions.

symbolic interactionism

The major proponent of interactionism who wrote Mind, Self and Society ($1934$) was __________.

George Mead

__________ is the study of the evolutionary history of human beings, including their culture and societies of the past.

Anthropology

The subdiscipline of anthropology that studies how language evolves is __________ anthropology, while the study of artifacts is __________.

Linguistic; Archaeology

__________ refers to a person's place of birth, whereas __________ is a political status granted by a government when legal requirements are met.

Nationality; citizenship