UCSP

• Social Psychology - Study of human nature as an outcome of group life
• Sociological Theory and Method - concerned with the applicability of of sociology principles and insights
• Political Science - systematic study of politics
• poli - city-state, scire - to know
• Andrew Heywood - "The activity through which people make, preserve, and amend......"
• In Political Science there are 9 areas
• Political Theory - accumulation of principle
• Public law - laws and ordinances
• Public administration - civil service and governance
• Political dynamics - different societal force
• Government and business - gives importance to regulatory
• Legislature and legislation - process, composition, and organization of legislation
• International relations - mutual ties
• International law - agreements and treaties
• Comparative government - general structure of government
• Edward Tylor 1871 - culture of is a "complex whole including belief, knowledge, art..."
• Dynamic Flexible Adaptive - changes constantly
• Shared and Contested - predict the behaviour of other members
• Learned through socialization and enculturation - culture is learned
• Agents of Socialization

  • Family
  • Community
  • Mass media
  • Religion
• Patterned social interactions - patterned behaviour
• Integratedandattimesunstable - to be always functioning must maintain its components integrated
• Transmitted through socialization/enculturation -

  • Socialization - process of learning
• Require language and other forms of communication - successfully transmitted