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UCSP Quarter 3 Quiz #2 (Reviewer)
UCSP Quarter 3 Quiz #2 (Reviewer)
❖ Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
➢ Point out the functions of social
institutions to show how they
supported and contributed to the
maintenance of society as a whole.
+Structural Functionalism
➢ Society thought as a kind of
organism
❖ Raymond Firth
➢ He defined that:
● Social Structure - an
established pattern of rules,
customs, statuses, and social
institution
● Social Organization - defined
as the dynamic aspect of
structures, what people actually Lesson #2:
do, their decisions, and pattern Person and Society
of action within the framework of
the structure. +Society
➢ Defined as constituting a fairly large
+Social System number of people who are living in
➢ Set of social relations which are the same territory, are relatively
regulated actualized and thus independent of people outside their
reproduced as a system through area, and participate in a common
interaction culture.
➢ A deity or god is supposed to
possess the tripartite (threefold)
reserved for him alone
(Omnipotence (all powerful), ● Social Field - had no unit or boundaries
omniscience (all-knowing), and had no coordinating organization, made
omnipresence (everywhere)) up of by ties of friendship and
acquaintance
Society as God
Lesson #3:
Person and Society (Part 2)
+Scale
➢ Measure of social complexity in
society.
➢ The scale of a society can be
defined as the total number of
statuses necessary for the society to
reproduce itself
➢ The larger the scale, the fewer
actors of the system one knows
+Boundaries of Social System personally.
➢ Social system set of relationships that
are created and recreated +Internet (Non-localized networks)
➢ Systematic boundaries are not absolute ➢ It transcends dualism such as
but relative to a kind of social context or local/global and small/large scale
a set of activities ➢ Online communities
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