UCSP (M 1-5)

• Anthropology - the study of humankind in all times and all places.
• Cultural Anthropology - refers to the study of living people and their cultures including variation and change.
• Linguistic Anthropology - refers to the study of communication, mainly among humans.
• Archaeology - refers to the study of past human cultures through their material remains.
• Biological Anthropology - also know as "Physical Anthropology", this refers to the study humans as biological organisms including their evolution and contemporary variation.
• The term sociology was derived from the Latin word socius meaning "associate" and the Greek word logos, meaning "study of knowledge."
• Sociology - it is a science that studies human civilization.
• Social Organization - this includes the study of social institutions, social inequality, social mobility, religious groups, and bureaucracy.
• Social Psychology - this area focuses on the study of human nature and its emphasis on social processes as they affect individual or responses which are called "social stimuli."
• Applied Sociology - this is concerned with the specific intent of yielding practical applications for human behavior and organizations.
• Population Studies - this area includes size, growth, demographic characteristics, composition, migration, changes, and quality vis-a-vis economic, political, and social systems.
• Human Ecology - it pertains to the study of the effects of various social organizations to the population's behavior.
• Sociological Theory and Research - it focuses on the discovery of theoretical tools, methods, and techniques to scientifically explain a particular sociological issue.
• Social Change - it studies factors that cause social organization and social disorganization like calamity, drug abuse, drastic and gradual social change, health and welfare problems, political instability, unemployment and underemployment, child and women’s issue, etc.
• Political Science - it is a study of the complex behavior of various political actors such as the government administration, opposition, and subjects.
• Politics - it is the art and science of governing city/state.
• Government - it is the organized agency in a state tasked to impose social control.
• Unilineal Evolutionism - states that new cultural forms emerge from the past that pass through similar stages of development.
• Cultural Diffusionism - asserts that culture originates from one or more culture centers, which are results of borrowed elements of the new culture.
• Historical Particularism - believes that each group of people has its own unique culture influenced by its history, geography, and environment.
• Anthropological Functionalism - believes that cultural elements and practices are interrelated and interdependent and persist because they have a purpose.
• Anthropological Structuralism - conveys that cultural phenomena and practices have a relationship to one another by which human organize and structure their experiences.
• Cultural Materialism - considers the idea that culture is influenced by technology, resources, economic values, and the utilization of things.
• Functionalism - views society as an organized network cooperating groups operating orderly to generally accepted norms.
• Conflict Perspective - sees the social environment in a continuous struggle which is in contrast with Functionalism.
• Symbolic Interactionalism - deals with patterns of behavior in large units of society such as organization, communities, etc.
• Evolutionism - explains how human groups came to exist, grow, and develop.
• It is derived from the Latin word ‘societas’, which means ‘companion’ or ‘associate’.
• Society - refers to all people, collectively regarded as constituting a community of related, interdependent individuals living in a particular place, following a certain mode of life.
• Culture - is a complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of society.
• Artifacts - objects made by human beings, either hand-made or mass produced.
• Arts and Recreation - Arts, Music, Drama and Literatures, Games and Sports, and Use of Leisure Time.
• Clothes - the people usually wear in the community.
• Customs and Traditions - the things we do.
• Food - the staple food that the people in the community often eat.
• Government - the one that implement rules, keep peace and order, and address conflicts in the community.
• Knowledge - the psychological result of perception, learning, and reasoning.
• Language - the mental faculty or power of vocal communication.
• Religion - a strong belief in a supernatural power that control human destiny.
• Shelter - a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger.