UCSP

• The power of an individual to change society or form a new one

  Agency
• Specific ideas that society holds to be true

  Beliefs
• The set of perceived qualities that make an individual unique from the rest / Socially constructed

  Identities
• Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behaviour of its members

  Norms
• The ability to influence others

  Power
• Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture

  Symbols
• Ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together form a people's way of life. Includes what we think, how we act, and what we own

  Culture
• Elements of Culture

  -Symbols

  -Language

  -Values

  -Norms
• System of symbols that allows people to communicatewith one another

  Language
• Culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serves as broad guidelines for social living

  Values
• Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behaviour of its members

  Norms
• Norms for routine or casual interaction

  Folkways
• Norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance

  Mores
• The alteration in the structure or organization in the society, may it be status, class, etc.

  Social Change
• The modification of a society through innovation, invention, discovery or contact with other societies

  Cultural Change
• The change in the governmental and political system of a state through transition of leadership, clash of ideologies, etc.

  Political Change
• 2 Kinds of culture

  1. Material Culture (tangible)
  2. Non-material Culture (intangible)
• Social Sciences

  -Sociology

  -Anthropology

  -Political Science
• Study of human social life, groups and society

  Sociology
• Study of human and the respective culture/ Known to be the father of all social sciences and behavioural sciences

  Anthropology
• Study of politics

  Political Science
• Father of sociology / Coined the word "sociology"

  Auguste Comte (1789-1837)
• Survival of the fittest

  Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
• Wrote a book of suicide study in sociology "Niche Problemative"

  Emile Durkheim
• -The communist manifesto

  -Also an economist

  -Reiterated that political revolution was vital in the process of society

  Karl Marx (1818-1883)
• – Believed that a sympathetic understanding, verstehen, of the mind of others is essential

  Max Weber (1864-1920)
• –Father of American anthropology

  Franz Boas
• -Believes that indigenous rights like traditional cultural preservation and ancestral domain of the American tribes

  Alfred Kroeber & William Henry
• Governed by the meaning shared and co-created by social actors in every interaction or encounter

  Social Interactionism
• Suggest that humans tend to live or do certain things on the basis of other people's thinking

  Symbolic interactionism
• How individuals and groups interact with each other

  Social Behaviour
• Involves action related to power & governance

  Political Behaviour
• Encompasses the shared beliefs, values, customs & tradition of a group of people

  Cultural Behaviour
• Any unacceptable food items in the society

  Food Taboo
• "Stand by" phenomenon that is relatively rampant here in the Philippines

  Istambay
• Situation wherein the same family are occupying elected positions

  Political Dynasty
• A time when people vote

  Elections
• Being minutes or hours late compared to the standard time

  Filipino time
• Someone's set of values and beliefs

  Moral Compass
• Kinds of change

  1. Social Change
  2. Cultural Change
  3. Political Change