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    SOCIAL SCIENCE I SOCIOLOGY IN PHILIPPINE SETTING SOCIETY‚ CULTURE WITH FAMILY PLANNING Why Study Sociology 1. To obtain factual information about our society and different aspects of our social life. 2. Enables us to learn the application of scientific information to daily life and problems. 3. Develop the capacity to see through some of the folk‚ traditional and conventional wisdom our of society. 4. Sociology performs its most important function when superstition and misinformation are replaced

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    |Chapter 3: Culture |[pic] | |Chapter Overview | | |PART I: CHAPTER OUTLINE |[pic] | |What is Culture? | | |Culture and Human Intelligence |

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    Study Guide for GCOM 123 Students are recommended to know this information for class tests and the final exam. Fundamentals of Communication Chapter 1: Competent Communication What are the most common myths about communication? Explain the differences between the three models of communication: linear‚ interactive‚ and transactional. Define the basic communication elements contained in the communication models (channel‚ sender‚ receiver‚ message‚ encode‚ decode‚ context‚ fields of

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    Reading Assignment One Introduction to Sociology Online Best Strategy for Completion: This assignment is much easier if you answer the questions as you read the assigned material every week. For example‚ in the first week of class you will read chapters 1and 5—answer the questions below at the same time‚ as you do your reading. The next week you will read chapters 2 and 3 and you should answer the questions for those chapters as well—chapter 3 questions can be found on reading assignment two

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    anthropology‚ but he did tell us this at first. He gave a sheet of paper that read “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”. As the group of people‚ I was sitting with and I read it‚ it was about a culture obsessed with rituals and the human body as a whole. They did many things that in America we would like were not “normal”. As we finish his told us who this culture was about‚ it was about modern American. Nacirema is American spelled backward. Once I read all of it again‚ I began to see the characteristics of

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    fact that our own culture could seem very odd‚ irrational‚ and ritualistic to an outsider. But aren’t we all outsiders to everyone else? Don’t we see ourselves as "normal" and everyone else as "abnormal"? I think it is human nature more than ethnocentrism. My daily rituals would seem very irrational to another woman of my age in different circumstances. That’s where the saying comes from that you don’t really know a person till you walk a mile in their shoes. The second reading of "Queer Customs"

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    The difference in ethnographies This essay is about ethnographies. It critically explains and compares ethnographies at published at different times by different authors .This is done to trace the differences with time. This is done mainly to identify the language of the authors‚ the themes‚ writing styles‚ how they appeal to the reader and also how they did their research in reference to the people studied. In this essay Ruth benedict’s patterns of culture is compared with primitive mind by Franz

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    “Crash” Character Analysis Emily Nostrant SUNY Fredonia 2015 The character I chose to analyze was Jean Cabot‚ who was played by Sandra Bullock. I feel that she really embodies all the topics we have talked about in class so far. The first time we see her‚ she and her husband‚ are heading to their car. While walking she catches a glimpse of two African American males and holds on to her husband harder and gives them a slightly disgusted look. She thinks that because she is a white women

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    The Nacireman Tribe

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    While in the process of doing a replication study of the Nacireman people‚ Anthropologist Lisa Hines stumbled upon an intriguing subculture within the tribe. The following are her observations; It seems that the people of Nacirema‚ in addition to their personal shrines in the home‚ have many other shrines they visit for different rituals and purposes. Besides the Holy-mouth-man and the Medicine man‚ there seems to be other subcultures of these two specialists. Naciremans also frequently gather

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    Differences in politics 2. ___________ is/are a course of action‚ which international businesses take that does not violate a company’s accepted principles. A. Ethical strategy B. Business ethics C. Ethical dilemmas D. Ethical issues E. Ethical relativism 3. Many of the ethical issues and dilemmas in international business are rooted in the fact of differences in all BUT which one of the following? A. Political systems B. Culture C. Monetary values D. Economic development E. Law 4. In the international

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