Ucsp topic 3 & 4

• Religion is a social institution that is organized through sets of beliefs, values and practices of people.
• Sacred entities are set apart and given a special meaning that transcend immediate human existence.
• Profane aspects of life are non- sacred aspects of life.
• Animism is the earliest form of religion that refers to the belief in spiritual being and forces in natural objects.
• Polytheism is a belief in a system that worships many gods or deities.
• Monotheism is a belief system in one supreme being.
• Cult is a new religious group headed by a leader that dominates the group.
• Sect is a small and new subset of a religion or denomination.
• Denomination is a large and religious organization that slightly differs in its beliefs from other mainstream religions.
• Ecclesia is a large religious group that is recognized nationally and holds a religious monopoly.
• Disease is a biological problem that involves irregularity in the human body structure, chemistry and function.
• Illness is an individual’s perception and cultural experience of a problem in their well-being or health.
• Sickness is the social construction of a health condition or illness.
• Ethnomedicine involves treating health problems using resources around the environment.
• Healers are cultural personalities that diagnose and use medicine and rituals to heal a specific illness.
• RA 11223 mandates that all Filipinos get the healthcare they need, when they need it, without getting impoverished.
• Industrialized states have high per capita income, large-scale industries and infrastructure, high standard of living, and high human development standards.
• Industrializing states have relatively lower incomes, infrastructure and standards of living compared to industrialized states but whose economies are growing at a higher rate then developing states.
• Developing states have high property incidences, few industries and low standards of living.
• Caste System is a system where the status of an individual is determined upon birth.
• Classsystem is a system where the status of an individual is based on martial possession, prestige and achievements or merits.
• SOCIAL STRATIFICATION is a system that divides people and groups according to a hierarchy of property, power, identifies and prestige.
• Doctrine is direct and formalized statements about religious belief
• Power- the ability to influence another person in order to achieve a desired outcome
• Property- is the key in an individual’s standing in the society 
• Prestige- has the more to do with the merit or individual achievement which affects ones status
• Protests - people gather to public
• Gender issues - unequal distribution
• Sexism - superior sex in the society
• Patriarchy - men dominate woman
• Armed conflict and terrorism - extreme means
• Terrorism - commonly used in political strategy