MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN SOCIETY AND CULTURE I. Identification. Correctly identify the following concepts. Wrong spelling will not be given any corresponding point(s). 1. It is a way of understanding that is based on science. 2. Spencer’s application of evolutionary notions and the concept of survival of the fittest to the social world. 3. A body of systematically arranged knowledge that shows the operation of general laws 4. Marx’s theory that development depends on the clash
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continuity and change through: | Identifying the nature of social and cultural continuity and change | The concepts of continuity and change are commonly used in our society‚ but for many of us they are hard to define. These terms share the feature of time being a determining factor. It is the opportunity of time that allows a society to develop and modify itself to change. Likewise when we observe a particular culture or community over a period of time we can oberve clear continuities. The term ’social
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Explain the differences and areas of overlap in the terms society and culture. It is often hard to differentiate society and culture as the terms are used interchangeably in more recent times. There has been an overlap due to an evolution to the meanings of the words society and culture which subsequently amalgamated certain parts of their meanings. Society is referred to as a group of people who share a common area‚ culture and behavior patterns. Culture is the sum total of beliefs‚ values
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coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society‚ as well as the rest of the world” (Ritzer‚ 2008‚ p.1). Ritzer’s analysis is based on Max Weber’s theory of rationalization: George Ritzer has taken central elements of the work of Max Weber‚ expanded and updated them‚ and produced a critical analysis of the impact of social structural change on human interaction and identity. The central theme in Weber’s analysis of modern society was the process of Rationalization; a far reaching
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What are the pros and cons of living in a consumerist society? Our world is one big shop. Everyone run‚ buy and scream every day for things they don’t even need. People become on big stampede which don’t care about anything else except goods. The most obvious advantage of living in consumerist society is better living standards. Consumers circulate turnover and that is how our standards of living is increasing. Another advantage is that people have wide range of products to select from. Everyone
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Science‚ Technology and Society "The concept of the cell phone is that you have absolutely nothing to say and you have to tell someone now." Jerry Seinfeld "The real progress is putting technology to everyone" Henry Ford Question: Do the scientific and technological advances together or separate to society? As the years go global society has had to adapt to scientific and technological changes that are being created‚ but the important question we want to ask is: What generates these
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TYPES OF SOCIETIES Sociologist Gerhard Lenski (1924–) defined societies in terms of their technological sophistication. As a society advances‚ so does its use of technology. Societies with rudimentary technology depend on the fluctuations of their environment‚ while industrialized societies have more control over the impact of their surroundings and thus develop different cultural features. This distinction is so important that sociologists generally classify societies along a spectrum of their
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school shootings. We need a not always question what is going on and why so we don’t turn into a world completely like The Giver. However‚ we are somewhat like their world and still different from their world and that is a good thing. Our society and the society in The Giver have many similarities and differences in having children. For example‚ page 8 paragraph 6 of The Giver states “Two children - one male‚ one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.” Also on page
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demonstrating; economic‚ society‚ cultural‚ politics and environment awareness. As Tim Jackson states ‘our current paradigm dictates that more stuff is better‚ that infinite economic growth is desirable and possible‚ and that pollution is the price of progress. In highlight to really make a positive change‚ we need to take good care of a different pattern following a sequence based on; the value of sustainability‚ health justice‚ growth and to nurture our community. Studying business and society as a module
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We can say that technology is applied science. However the second concept tells us that technological developments existed long before the scientific Knowledge‚ this concept clarifies that technology is not necessarily applied science. Classic societies: For many centuries the Lower Paleolithic humans were mostly nomads‚ they fed themselves by hunting‚ fishing… and their instruments were simple objects: Ex.: Stones‚ barely modified wood. Then‚ in the upper Paleolithic these instruments were developed
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