REVIEWER IN UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Political science is the study of politics and power from domestic, international, and comparative
perspectives

Social science is any branch of academic study or science that deals with human behaviour in its social
and cultural aspects.

Anthropology is the study of the origin and development of human societies and cultures.

Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human
behavior

Economics is the study of scarcity and its implications for the use of resources, production of goods and
services, growth of production and welfare over time, and a great variety of other complex issues of vital
concern to society.

Philosophy the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when
considered as an academic discipline. the term "philosophy" means, "love of wisdom.

History-the branch of knowledge dealing with past events

Society- a community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and
collective activities and interests.

Anomie-The situation in which society lacks social regulation through social norms.

Family- a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit.

Marriage-Is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a women entered into in
accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life

Cohabitant-are couples who share a common residence with a child, just like a nuclear family, but
without the benefit of the marriage

Patrilineal descent people automatically have lifetime membership in the father’s group

Matrilineal descent people join the mother’s group automatically at birth and stay members throughout
life

Ambilineal descent rule, the children can opt to claim lineage on either their father or their mother’s
family group.

Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) refers to the psychology born out of the experience, though,
and orientation of the Filipinos, based on the full use of Filipino culture and language.

The feminist approach requires supporting the voice, agency and empowerment of women and girls in
all their diversity and others who face discrimination or marginalization.

Feminist anthropology is a four-field approach to anthropology (archeological, biological, cultural,

linguistic) that seeks to transform research findings, anthropological hiring practices, and the scholarly
production of knowledge, using insights from feminist theory.
Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another.

Rationalization -an attempt to find reasons for behaviour, decisions, etc., especially your own.

Decolonization, process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country.

Ideological state apparatuses are institutions that are created and used by society to molds its members
to share the same values and beliefs that a typical member of the society possesses.

Repressive ideological state are institutions that use physical force to make the members conforms to
the laws and norms of society like courts, police and prisons

Claudius Ptolemy - Ptolemaic Theory

Franz Boas is regarded as both the “father of modern anthropology” and the “father of American
anthropology.” He was the first to apply the scientific method to anthropology, emphasizing a research-
first method of generating theories.

Auguste Comte is known as the father of sociology. He initially studied to become an engineer, but one
of his teachers, Henri de Saint-Simon, made such an impression on him that he turned to social
philosophy.

Katharine Jefferts Schor -First Female presiding Bishop in the history of episcopal church

Sir Isaac Newton was also responsible for working out many of the principles of visible light and the laws
of motion, and contributing to calculus.

The History of Human Marriage is an 1891 book by the Finnish philosopher and anthropologist Edward
Westermarck that provides an overview of marriage over time

Social Darwinists held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of
the fittest,” a phrase proposed by the British philosopher and scientist Herbert Spencer.

Anthony Giddens wrote the Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern
Society.