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REVIEWER IN UNDERSTANDINg CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS Joyce Fraulein T.

Lejos

Essentials in Studying Culture,  Human Ecology – study of


Society, and Politics interactions between man and
nature in different cultures
Social Science
 Applied Sociology – scientific
 Branch of Science that deals with study of society as a whole
human behavior in the social and  Population Studies –
cultural aspects scientific studies of human
 Studies human society and social populations
relationships  Social Change – involves
 Branches of Social Science: alteration of the social order of
Anthropology, Sociology, a society (E.g.: Demographic,
Political Science, Economic Political, Economic, Cultural
Psychology, and Geography. and Technological changes)
 Sociological Theory and
Natural Science Research – seeks to explain
 Branch of Science that deals with social phenomena. Theories
the natural world processes, can be used to create a
elements, and composition. testable proposition, called
 Studies natural events hypothesis about society.
o Conflict Theory - a
Sociology theoretical framework in
 Is one of the disciplines that tend which society is viewed
to answer the social and political as being composed of
issues in the modern period groups competing for
 Socius – “Companion”; Logos – scarce resources
“Study” o Functional Analysis -
a theoretical framework
Areas of Sociology in which society is
 Social Organization – viewed as a whole unit,
pattern of relationships composed of
between and among interrelated parts, each
individuals and social groups with a function that,
(E.g.: Nuclear families, when fulfilled,
Extended families, Class and contributes to society’s
titles, Social classes, Youth equilibrium
gang, Castes, Religious o Symbolic
organization, fraternities, and Interactionism – a
sororities.) theoretical perspective
 Social Psychology – scientific that focuses on how
study of how people’s people use symbols to
thoughts, feelings, and establish meaning,
behaviors are influenced by develop their views of
the actual, imagined, or the world, and
implied presence of others.
REVIEWER IN UNDERSTANDINg CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS Joyce Fraulein T. Lejos

communicate with one theory of Society) with


another. Friedrich Engels

 Emile Durkheim
o Defended Sociology as a
separate and independent
Anthropology from psychology
 Anthropos (“man”) and Logos o Division of Labor in
(“study”) Society – tackles the
 A branch of social science that transformation of a society
deals with all aspects of from a primitive state into a
human beings including their capitalist, industrial society
biological evolution and social o Suicide (1987)
and cultural features that  Max Weber
definitively distinguish humans o Emphasized the role of
from other aspects. rationalization in the
 Branches: development of society. It
refers essentially to the
Physical Anthropology – focuses
disenchantment of the
on the biological and evolutionary
world.
framework of humanity. It focuses on
greater information and details  Charles Darwin
about human evolution. o “On the Origin of
o Other: Social, Cultural, Species” (1859) boosted
Psychological, and the passion of scientists in
Linguistic anthropology different fields
 Bronislaw Malinowski
Archaeology o Introduced participant
 Investigates of prehistoric observation as a method of
cultures as its primary focus, has studying culture
been an essential part of  Franz Z. Boas
anthropology since it became a o Father of American
separate and distinct discipline in Anthropology
the end of 19th century. o His works focused on
rejecting the biological
Proportions basis of racism or racial
 Auguste Comte discrimination
o Positivism o Favored Historical
o Course on Positive Particularism and
Philosophy (1830-1842) advocated Cultural
o System of Positive Polity Relativism
(1824)  Edward B. Tylor
 Karl Marx o Known for his book
o Made Communist Primitive Culture (1871)
Manifesto (Represents the that gave the first definition
REVIEWER IN UNDERSTANDINg CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS Joyce Fraulein T. Lejos

of culture which is “Culture


is that complex whole
which includes knowledge,
beliefs, arts, morals, law,
custom, and all aspects of
man as a member of
society ".

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