Social health - ability to form satisfying interpersonal relationships with others.
LATAH - involuntary actions from a person experiencing shocks
RUNNING AMOK - sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of depression or loneliness.
KORO - overpowering belief that the genitalia are retracting and will dissapear.
WENDIGO PSYCHOSIS - intense craving for human flesh; cannibalism
Shamans - cures the sick using special powers that he has received during the state of trance.
Magic-based healers - healers who use magic to cure illnesses such condition due to black magic and curses.
Fortune tellers - their disease has some underlying explanation that can be addressed and promote healing.
Traditional birth attendants - women who are trained to provide basic health care to women during pregnancy and childbirth. They also perfor traditional massages on individuals who feels pain.
Trance-based healers - healers who provide relief for sickness and pain through meditation and trance-based activities.
Traditional medicine experts - they provide medicines through symptoms that the individual is experiencing.
In sociology, education is viewed as a social institution.
Formal education - student learns inside the classroom, follows a curriculum and is being graded on it's performance.
Non-formal education - enables students to learn skills through structured learning experiences.
Philip H. Coombs - who argued that the formal education systems have failed to address the changing dynamics of the environment and the societies.
Informal Education - self-learning through family, press, radio, cinema, church, playground, Library, etc.
Religion - The beliefs and practices of a religion, especially as they relate to the supernatural or spiritual world.
Polytheism - belief in multiple deities/gods and goddesses.
Monotheism - belief in a single all-powerful god.
Religious beliefs - it proves that there is a god who exists
Religious rituals - prescribed order of performing ceremony: chants, prayers, processions, sacraments.
Religious experience - personal encounter of a person/people with God, usually through blessings.
Community of Believers - blessings that something is shared among those who believe in god.
Art. II, Sec. 6, 1987 Philippine Constitution - this is the constitutional provision intended to prevent the church from meddling in the affairs of the Philippine government, and vice versa.
"The separation of the church and the state shall be inviolable."
Art. II, Sec. 6, 1987 Philippine Constitution
Social Inequality - The unequal distribution of resources and opportunities in society.
Gender Inequality - The unequal treatment of men and women in society.
Gender Stereotype - A set of expectations about the behavior and characteristics of men and women.
Sex - The biological differences between males and females.
Gender - the social and cultural attributes/characteristics that are associated with being male or female.
Conflict Theory - stresses that social inequality and conflict between the dominant elite and masses; it sees the negative side of the society.
Karl Marx - introduced the idea about class struggles and conflict is the main source of social change.
Charles Wright Mills - introduced the power elite, a tiny minority government, military government, and business figures believed to control the the state.
Structural-Functional Theory - The structure of the body is determined by the functions it performs.
Kinsley Davis and Wilbert Moore - member of society has specific roles and responsibilities to take accomplished.
Symbolic-Interactional theory - interaction is often consider the question of how power is exchanged in a situation.
George Herbert Mead - believed that a person develops self-awareness and personality only by interaction through symbols and language.