IDENTITY, CULTURE, & SOCIETY

• ANTHROPOLOGY - Is the study of humankind. This is a merging of natural sciences and the social sciences.
• HISTORY -Attempts to ascertain, record and explain facts and events that happened in the past.
• GEOLOGY - Is the study of the features of the earth and the location of living things on the planet.
• POLITICAL SCIENCE - Includes the study of government, the need for the institution, its forms, and its processes.
• SOCIOLOGY - Is a field of study dealing with the systematic study of patterns of human interactions
• PSYCHOLOGY - Deals with the nature of human behaviors, and both internal and external factors that affect these behaviors.
• LINGUISTICS - Is a field of knowledge involving the scientific study of language as a universal and recognizable aspect of human behavior and capacity
• CULTURE - Generally defined as the sum of an individual's way of life, ranging from the food he or she eats, the clothes he or she wears, and the house where he or she lives.

  It also includes both the Material and the Non-material things that an individual possesses or acquires.
• SOCIETY - Defined as an organized group or groups of interdependent people who share a common territory, language, and culture.
• POLITICS - Refers to the theory, art, and practice of government.
• IDENTITY - Is the distinctive characteristic that defines an individual or is shared by those belonging to a particular group.

  This is important because they shape both individual and group behavior as well as people's views about other people and society.
• NATIONALITY - reveals his/her place of birth or from where he/she is. It defines the belongingness of a person to a particular nation
• CITIZENSHIP - is the legal relationship that binds a person and a state
• JUS SANGUINIS - Citizenship is conferred by birth to a parent who is already a citizen of a particular country.
• JUS SOLI - A person's citizenship is determined by the place where the person was born.
• NATURALIZATION - The process of legally adopting a foreigner and giving the same benefits as those of native-born citizens.
• MARRIAGE - Acquiring citizenship through marital ceremonies
• ETHNICITY - Is the expression of the set of cultural ideas held by a distinct ethnic or indigenous group.
• ETHNIC GROUP - refers to people who collectively and publicly identify themselves as distinct and unique based on distinguishable cultural features
• Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Sex Characteristics - SO.GI.SC
• SEX - The biological differences between males and females, including the reproductive organs and the hormones that control them.
• Homosexual– a person who is sexually attracted to a person of the same sex
• Bisexual– a person who is attracted to both sexes
• Transgender– a person whose gender identity does not match up with his/her assigned sex
• Transsexual– a person who feels that he/she is not the gender to which he/she was assigned and can be addressed through medical sexual reassignment
• Queer– a broad term that is inclusive of people who are not straight and cisgender
• Intersex– a general term used for a variety of situations in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the boxes of “male” or “female”
• Asexual– a person who is totally incapable of being attracted to any sex
• Pansexual– a person who accommodates all types of gender.
• RELIGION - Refers to an organized system of beliefs and ideas about the spiritual sphere or the supernatural.
• Socioeconomic status - refers to the category of persons who have more or less the same socioeconomic privileges in a society. These privileges are due to inherited wealth and/or occupational status of the breadwinner in the household
• UPPER CLASS 01 - New Rich (Nouveau), Traditional Upper Class
• MIDDLE CLASS - Small business and industry operators, Managers, professionals, office workers and farm owners. OFW
• LOWER CLASS - Farm employees, skilled and unskilled artisans, service workers, Unemployed or underemployed, Indigent families or informal sectors
• POLITICAL IDENTITY - Set of attitudes and practices that an individual adheres to in relation to the political systems and actors within his or her society.
• exceptionality - leans on the non-average capacity of an individual. This could be understood in a spectrum of capabilitie
• GENIUSES/GIFTS - Having exceptional talent or natural ability. Exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability.
• DISABILITIES - The loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in society on an equal level with others due to social and environmental barriers