UCSP

• emile durkheim and max weber- the reality od oppression poverty, and exploitation escaped their respective theoretical musings.
• Social inequality- the condition where people have unequal access to valued resources.
• example

  -racial inequality

  -wealth inequality

  -education inequality

  -gender inequality

  -geographical inequality
• oppression- the unjust use of power and authority by a group makes a social injustice.
• anthropology- uncover principle of behavior that apply to all human comunities.
• Diversity- the presence of a wide range of distinct characteristics, background, and perspective within a group or society.
• social diversity- gaps between people as measured by the pressence.
• Political Science- systematic study of governance and politics.
• Power relations- interaction mediated by the use and deployment of authority and political influence.
• structural functionalism- society as a system
• symbolic interactionalism- explore the issues of meaning making.
• symbol- something that represents something nice.
• interaction- how a meaning of a symbol being interpreted trough social interactions.
• Ethnocentrism- the tendency of each society to place its own culture pattern at the center of things.
• ethnocentrism is coined by- william graham sumner.
• cultural relativism- the idea that all norms, beliefs and values are dependent on cultural context and should be trated as such.
• xenocentrism- a presence for the foreign.
• xonophobia- fear of what perceived as foreign or stranger.
• cultural heritage- have intangible and tangible components.