SOCSCI REVIEWER 3

• Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte / Auguste Comte / Comte


  French philosopher, widely regarded as the Father of Sociology and of the doctrine of positivism
• Human Geography


  A branch of the social sciences that studies the world, its people, communities and cultures with an emphasis on relations of and across space and place
• Joan of Arc


  The heroine of the Siege of Orleans, the French royal army's first major military victory in the Hundred Years War after the Battle of Agincourt in 1415
• Psychometrics


  The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits
• Ego


  (According to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality) the component of personality that is responsible for dealing with reality
• Multidisciplinary Approach


  The approach in the social sciences which integrates ideas and concepts into comprehensive units which, in a way, broaden and strengthen the learning experience
• Humanism


  A system of thought that promoted the idea that man was the center of his own universe
• Geopolitics


  The analysis of the geographic influences on power relationships in international relations, originally coined by the Swedish political scientist Rudolf Kjellén
• Inductive Method


  A method used in the study of economics which is a movement from facts to theory and particular to general
• Compassion


  The human virtue that the Dalai Lama, the head of the Tibetan government and the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, is believed to be the manifestation of (Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of)
• Demagogue


  A leader in a democracy who gains popularity by exploiting prejudice and ignorance among the common people, whipping up the passions of the crowd and shutting down reasoned deliberation
• Culture


  That 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 a society
• Checks and Balance


  The principle that gives each government branch some power over the others
• Filipino


  The standardized form of the Tagalog language
• Placebo Effect


  The tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work
• Morpheme


  The smallest unit of sound in a language that conveys meaning
• Meme


  An idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture, coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene
• The Legislative Department


  The title of Article VI of the Philippine Constitution
• Field Theory


  A theory in social psychology developed by Kurt Lewin, drawn from physics and mathematics, that examines the interaction between the individual and the total environment
• Embargo


  The official ban on trade with a particular country
• Double Jeopardy


  The procedural defense that prevents an accused person from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges and on the same facts, following a valid acquittal or conviction
• Genealogy


  The study of family lineages
• Mcdonalization


  The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as of the rest of the world
• Tokugawa Shogunate


  The feudal military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868 which brought order and unity to Japan by carefully managing social hierarchies and foreign contact
• Estuary


  A semi-enclosed body of water where river water mixes with ocean water
• Australopithecus sediba


  A newly discovered South African hominin named, announced in 2010 by a team led by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand
• Anomie theory


  The condition of normlessness or loss of accepted social rules within a society
• Neolithic revolution


  The major shift in economic subsistence of the early humans from foraging to agriculture, which affected their entire array of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and corresponding material inventions
• Queer Theory


  A loosely defined interdisciplinary set of critiques and perspectives which call into question those political, cultural, and social forces which traditionally naturalized categories of sexual orientation and gender identity
• Treaty of Tordesillas


  An agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers
• People


  The element of a state that is often regarded synonymous to a nation in the context of political science
• Ethnocentrism


  The evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture
• Culture


  (According to Geertz) a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life
• Plato


  Often given credit for founding the Academy of Athens, one of the first institutions of higher learning in the western world
• Plato


  The most pervasive and influential human traits that touch almost every aspect of a person's life, described as a ruling passion, a powerful force that dominates behavior
• Compadrazgo


  The Spanish form of ritual kinship established through the rites of the Catholic Church (especially at baptism, confirmation and marriage) between a person, his or her biological parents, and his or her godparents
• Sharia Law


  The religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition
• The Ancient Greeks had no word to describe the color blue
• Privatization


  The transfer of public services provided by various levels of governments in national states to the private sector of business
• Bipartisan


  The agreement or cooperation of two political parties that usually oppose each other's policies