Logical Fallacies
A conclusion made from a limited data sample.
Hasty Generalization
Any object made or used by human beings
Material Culture
This historical event lead scholars to develop and formalize the scientific method.
Scientific Revolution
Your Mother-in-law
affinal kin
A social construct used to systematize the exchange of labor for goods
Money
A group of people who share a common language and cultural traditions, often tied to geographic ancestry
Ethnic Group
"Apples and strawberries are red, therefore all fruit is red."
False Analogy
A culturally recognized designation that indicates a person's place in group
Status
This historical event dramatically shifted the global population as millions were enslaved and was justified in part by scientific racism
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Your brother
consanguineal kin
Small-scale farming for your own consumption, for example
Subsistence as a mode of production
A phenomenon that does not occur outside of human social interaction and is frequently glossed in popular culture as "not real" but nevertheless has "real" impacts.
Social Construct
"If you're not with me, your against me."
Manichean Logic
The particular behaviors or actions a person may be expected to perform if they hold a particular status
Role
This historical event lead to the development of a hierarchical system called "casta" that divided people based on skin tone and associated whiteness with spiritual purity.
Spanish Inquisition
Purchasing food at the grocery store, for example
Market exchange
Race
Zero-Sum
A culturally organized capacity or desire to act
Agency
This historical event lead to the establishment of new governments around the world and a massive increase in interactions between people of different cultures.
European Settler Colonialism
The Roman Republic would be consider what kind of social organization
A State
According to Max Weber, this phenomena occurs because capitalism has been so rationalized and bureaucratized that people cannot imagine another mode of production.
Iron Cage
Scientific Racism
Everyone believes that the earth is flat, so the earth is flat.
argumentum ad populum
Habitus
This historical event influenced social scientists to consider how the movement of people from rural to urban centers and changes in modes of production might impact society at large.
Industrial Revolution
A stratified society with no codified legal or bureaucratic system.
Chiefdom
The mode of production used under feudalism and in ancient China
Tributary
The process by which the social and cultural world (including social constructs) may impact our bodies and become visible over our lifetime
Embodiment