SOCSCI REVIEWER 4

• Multidisciplinary Approach


  The approach in the social sciences which integrates ideas and concepts into comprehensive unit which, in a way, broaden and strengthen the learning experience
• Weak State/Fragile State


  A country characterised by fragile capacity or ineffective legitimacy, leaving citizens vulnerable to a range of shocks shown by their gap behind the developed countries since the 70s
• Material Culture


  The objects produced and used in society, including the tools, which we use to produce things, and consumer goods, which may be used as status symbols or to make statements about our identities
• Utility


  Pleasure, happiness or satisfaction (in Economics)
• Confounding variable


  A variable that is not part of your investigation but can potentially affect the dependent variable of your research study
• 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
• Geopolitics


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


  The treaty between the USA and the Philippines wherein the former agreed to withdraw and surrender all rights of possession, supervision, jurisdiction, control or sovereignty existing and exercised by the United States of America in and over the territory and the people of the Philippine Islands
• Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

  The government institution whose primary mandate is to maintain price stability conducive to a balanced and sustainable economic growth
• Robert McNamara


  The former US Secretary of Defense who played a major role in escalating US involvement in the Vietnam War and was depicted in the documentary film "The Fog of War"
• Field Theory


  The theory in social psychology developed by Kurt Lewin, drawn from physics and mathematics, which examines the interaction between the individual and the total environment
• Post-modern Condition/Modernism


  The increasing skepticism toward the totalizing nature of metanarratives, according to Jean Francois Lyotard
• Anomie theory


  The condition of normlessness or loss of accepted social rules within a society
• The Arab Republic of Egypt


  The official name of Egypt, similar to the Republic of the Philippines
• Pagtatanong-tanong


  An indigenous research method in Philippine social science research, known as an improvised, informal, and an unstructured interview
• Globalization


  The integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations, and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper, and cheaper
• Maximilien de Robespierre


  The French revolutionary who came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety, the principal organ of the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror, but was overthrown and guillotined in 1794
• Natuna islands


  The archipelago that is the cause of the ongoing dispute between China and Indonesia in the South China Sea
• Confabulation


  The falsification of memory in which gaps in recall are filled by fabrications that the individual accepts as fact, not a conscious attempt to deceive others
• Ethnocentrism


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


  The arrest of five burglars at the Democratic National Committee headquarters that prompted the resignation of President Richard Nixon
• Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman


  The notorious drug trafficker from Latin America, believed to be the largest smuggler of marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine, with a net worth estimated at $1 billion by Forbes Magazine in 2009
• Spillover effects


  The impact that seemingly unrelated events in one nation can have on the economies of other nations (in Economics)
• Cardinal traits


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