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Logical Fallacies
Culture
History and Historical Figures
Kin to Citizen
Economics
Race and Ethnicity
100

A conclusion made from a limited data sample. 

Hasty Generalization 

100

Any object made or used by human beings

Material Culture


100

This historical event lead scholars to develop and formalize the scientific method. 

Scientific Revolution

100

Your Mother-in-law

affinal kin

100

A social construct used to systematize the exchange of labor for goods

Money

100

A group of people who share a common language and cultural traditions, often tied to geographic ancestry 

Ethnic Group

200

"Apples and strawberries are red, therefore all fruit is red."

False Analogy 

200

A culturally recognized designation that indicates a person's place in group

Status

200
He developed a system of taxonomic categories we still use today, but his attempts at using this system to classify humans were deeply flawed. 

Carl Linneaus

200

Your brother

consanguineal kin 

200

Small-scale farming for your own consumption, for example

Subsistence as a mode of production


200

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

300

"If you're not with me, your against me." 

Manichean Logic

300

The particular behaviors or actions a person may be expected to perform if they hold a particular status

Role


300

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 

300
The smallest system of social organization, this social system is frequently characterized by egalitarian systems of exchange and hunter-gatherer subsistence 
Band 
300

Purchasing food at the grocery store, for example

Market exchange

300
A social construct that groups people together by a limited set of phenotypical traits

Race

400
"If you win, I lose" 

Zero-Sum

400

A culturally organized capacity or desire to act

Agency


400

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

400

The Roman Republic would be consider what kind of social organization 

A State

400

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 

400
Carl Linneaus's taxonomic system for human "varieties," for example 

Scientific Racism 

500

Everyone believes that the earth is flat, so the earth is flat. 

argumentum ad populum 

500
A practice developed through enculturation that become so habitual a person may not notice they are engaging that practice. 

Habitus 

500

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


500

A stratified society with no codified legal or bureaucratic system. 

Chiefdom

500

The mode of production used under feudalism and in ancient China

Tributary 

500

The process by which the social and cultural world (including social constructs) may impact our bodies and become visible over our lifetime

Embodiment