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         Cultural relativism is the idea that a person’s beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another. This can be good and bad, depending on that certain culture of a country. For an example, let us take the culture of the Chinese.Continue reading “Cultural Relativism”

Throughout history and even today many people around the world has always wonders on how we came to, to make it simple I’ll talk about creation and evolution. In the video, according to the Bible an all-powerful creator created everything. While according to Charles Darwin the Theory of Evolution is about natural selection. Both ofContinue reading “What Makes More Sense: Creation or Evolution?”

Biological evolution is a population-level process guided by selection, and it leads to an increase of the adaptation of the population for the environmental circumstances in which the population lives. Cultural evolution provides an explanation for how cultures and societies change over time. With every population there is a culture which can vary from one another depending on theContinue reading “Evolution of Stone Tools”

  Nicole Bernardo Ezekiel Gebala Family Background I belong to a family of 4 members including me. I am the eldest in the family and we came from a Filipino-Chinese family I am the youngest in the family. I have 2 brothers and 3 sisters. Favorite Movie N/A AVENGERS: ENDGAME Favorite Song N/A N/A FavoriteContinue reading “Social Labels”

Culture– Encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups. Society– A group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, Politics– The activities associated with theContinue reading “Introduction”

Species of Societies Biological Evolution Cultural Evolution Political Evolution Type of Society 1.)Australopithecus Had both ape and human characteristics: a flat nose, a strongly projecting lower jaw and braincase with a small brain, about 1/3 the size of a modern human brain, and long, strong arms with curved fingers. Used stone tools A male hierarchy,Continue reading “Long Test Part 2: Evolution of Man”

Franz Boas          He was the most important figure in 20th century North American anthropology, and widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential anthropologists ever, Franz Boas was a German-American scientist, who is also known as the “Father of Modern Anthropology”. He was the first person to implement the scientific method into the study of human culturesContinue reading “The First Modern Anthropologists”

Social Imagination (C. Wright Mills) The concept of the sociological imagination was presented in 1959. It enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. Social Construction Reality (Peter Berger) It was published on 1966. It is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory that examines the development of jointly-constructed understandings of the world thatContinue reading “Sociological Perspectives”

Social Realities: Behavior and Phenomenon There are times that we find ourselves in a situation unlike other situations, we personally encounter different ways of doing things, behaving and making sense of events. Observing them, we cannot help but ask: Why do people do such things? What makes it normal and acceptable to some people inContinue reading “Social Realities”