UCSP

• Nationality


  Legal relationship binding a person and a country, allowing the state to protect and have jurisdiction over the person
• Cultural variation categories

  • Religion
  • Ethnicity
  • Nationality
• Religion


  Organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or the supernatural
• Human cultural variation


  Differences in social behaviors exhibited by different cultures around the world
• Japanese diet consists largely of fish, seafood, and vegetables due to Japan being an archipelago with limited grazing land for raising beef cattle
• Exceptionality


  State of being intellectually gifted and/or having physically or mentally challenged conditions
• Social Differences categories

  • Gender
  • Socio-Economic Status
  • Exceptionality
• Gender


  Guide on how males and females think and act about themselves
• Subcultures are segments of society sharing distinctive patterns of mores, folkways, and values different from the larger society
• Gender


  Socially-constructed characteristics of being male or female
• Religion


  A system of beliefs and practices directed toward entities above men
• Ethnicity


  Expression of cultural ideas held by a distinct ethnic or indigenous group
• Social Differences


  Differences among individuals based on social characteristics and qualities
• If human cultures modify the natural environment, the natural environment initially shaped and still shapes to some extent the culture of society
• Good etiquette in one culture may be considered bad etiquette in another
• Socio-Economic Status


  Category of persons with similar socio-economic privileges, including upper class, middle class, lower class
• Subcultures are groups with specific cultural traits setting them apart from the dominant culture
• Climate, soil, and geography affect cultural aspects
• Subculture

  • HANUKKAH - a lesser Jewish festival lasting eight days from the 25th day of Kislev, commemorating the rededication of the Temple in 165 BC by the Maccabees after its desecration by the Syrians
  • MENORAH - a candelabrum used in Jewish worship, especially one with eight branches and a central socket used at Hanukkah
  • KWANZAA - a secular festival observed by many African Americans from December 26 to January 1 as a celebration of their cultural heritage and traditional values
• Types of culture

  • Subculture
  • Counterculture
  • High Culture
  • Popular Culture
• Counterculture


  • Paramilitary groups, militias, survivalist groups
• Significance of studying culture, society, and politics: Social science focuses on Anthropology (culture), Sociology (society), and Political Science (political identities and government) to understand and explain social issues in human society
• High Culture


  Cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in highest esteem by a culture
• Militia


  A military force engaging in rebel or terrorist activities, typically in opposition to a regular army
• Ideal Culture - the standard of behavior described as the blueprint providing directions and guidelines in relating with others or doing things
• Types of culture

  • High Culture
  • Popular Culture
• Paramilitary


  A semi-militarized force with organizational structure, tactics, training, subculture similar to a professional military, not part of a state’s formal armed forces
• Real Culture - how one behaves in an actual situation within the context of what may be regarded as acceptable by other members of society
• Counterculture


  A group whose values and norms place it at odds with mainstream society or actively rejects dominant cultural values and norms
• Popular Culture

  Culture based on the tastes of ordinary people rather than an educated elite
• Subculture

  A pattern of mores, folkways, and values which differ from the pattern of the larger society; culture within a culture