Society And Culture UCSP PDF

SOCIET Y AND CULTURE: THE INSEPERABLE REVIEW: Why is human cultural variation important in society? ACTIVITY: Think of one object, expression or word that best describes your generation SOCIOLOGY VS ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY: HOW DO WE DEFINE IT? Society is formally defined as...

SOCIET Y AND CULTURE: THE INSEPERABLE REVIEW: Why is human cultural variation important in society? ACTIVITY: Think of one object, expression or word that best describes your generation SOCIOLOGY VS ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY: HOW DO WE DEFINE IT? Society is formally defined as constituting a fairly large number of people who are living in the same territory, relatively independent of people outside their area and participate in a common culture (Contreras, 2016) A group of independent thinking individuals who create a structured or organized group based on social formations such as classes, age, cohorts, and network structures (McLeod, 2010). SOCIETY AS A FACTUAL ENTITY Social Social forces facts Society THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON STUDYING SOCIETY Structural Conflict Functionalism Theory Symbolic Interactionist IN A NUTSHELL… SOCIOLOGICAL PARADIGM LEVEL OF ANALYSIS FOCUS STRUCTURAL Macro and mid The way each part of the FUNCTIONALISM society functions together to contribute to the whole CONFLICT THEORY Macro The way the inequalities contribute to social differences and perpetuate differences in power Symbolic Interactionism Micro One-to-one interactions and communications ACTIVITY: SITUATION THEORY TO BE FACTORS CONSIDERED The government reduces the conditions in its conditional cash transfer program The second installment of the TRAIN Package includes the increased taxes on tobacco products and increased tax exemptions on corporations Neoliguism is evident such that amalgamations of terms are a practice (lol, ikr, lmao, skl)  THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIETY THEORY PROPONENT CONCEPT EVIDENCE Functionalism Emile Durkheim There must be an interconnectivity of all the elements of the society. Individual behavior is different from collective behavior or the collective conscience Existence of social integration Conflict Karl Marx Society’s constructions were predicated upon the idea of base and superstructure  THEORY PROPONENT CONCEPT EVIDENCE Society is split between owners and laborers Status is based on class Symbolic Interactionism Max Weber Supports rationalization where a society is built on logic and efficiency rather than morality and tradition Iron Cage leads to disenchantment of the world WRITTEN TASK Read the article, Understanding Filipino traits, values, and culture by Derek Gallimore. Relate the traits presented to how the Filipino society is formed. Identify the social forces and social facts that are innately Filipino. Provide your thoughts/insights in the role of these values in shaping the society. You may agree or disagree with these values. https://www.outsourceaccelerator.com/articles/filipino-traits-and-values/ Do we control society or is it the other way around? THE POWERS OF THE SOCIETY SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY Who are you? Source: http://www.lbcrossfit.com/define-deeper-level  Society is built on human interactions as well as their own actions called habitualization (Berger & Luckman,1966) Habitualization is the repetitive actions which create patterns, having the same tendency to be performed again in the same manner and economical effort (Berger and Luckman, 1966). Society includes institutionalization. The Thomas theorem states that people’s behavior is and can be determined by their subjective construction of reality than by objective reality. Source: https://michaelwilson.org/labels-are-for-cans-and-clothes-not-people/ ROLES AND STATUS Patterns of behavior that we recognize in each Roles other that are representative of our social status Role-set, role strain, and role conflict Role performance The responsibilities and benefits that a person experiences according to their rank and role Status society Could be ascribed or achieved TYPES OF SOCIETY society industrial preindustrial postindustrial Hunter gatherer Industrial revolution Pastoral Rise of urban workers Information societies Horticultural Money was transferred to Digital technology emerged Agricultural businessmen CULTURE Represents the beliefs and practices of a group The shared product of a human group or society (Aguilar,et.al, 2016). It consists of thoughts and tangible and intangible things It could be material or nonmaterial CULTURAL UNIVERSALS Cultural universals are patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies. ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM Ethnocentrism Cultural relativism Evaluating or judging Xenocentrism Practice of assessing a one’s cultures based on Opposite of culture based on its how it compares to ethnocentrism own standards one’s own culture ELEMENTS OF CULTURE Values and Norms beliefs Symbols and Technology language