Fundamental Concepts
A unique individual who develops in a social and environmental setting that they are influences by and interact with.
What are Persons
The ability to persuade or influence a person or group to hold a point of view or enact action and change. (P)
What is Power.
Level of society that is personal and occurs between individuals and their families.
What is Micro Level
The social expectations attached to a particular social position.
What are roles
Biological determinants thought to be responsible for an individual's identity formation and their behaviour.
What is Nature
This research method is often a recorded conversation between two people to collect specific information.
What is an interview
An interconnected system of groups, people, oraganisations and structures that can be local, national or regional.
What is a Society.
The legitimate use of power given by a majority of the population to act in their best interests. (A)
What is Authority.
Groups in the community including schools, religious and sporting make up this level of society.
What is Meso Level
The passage an individual goes through, reaching successive milestones of development. (L.S)
What are Life Stages
Personal qualities acquired throughout life that shape our behaviour and identify formation.
What is nurture
A prepared set of questions that are distributed to a select group or random sample of people to arrive at significant insights on a topic.
What is a Questionnaire
Shared knowledge, beliefs and customs that give each society its distinctive way of life.
What is Culture.
Socially constructed differences between males and females. (G)
What is Gender.
A system in which societies are organised into hierarchical levels based on power, wealth and privilege.
What is Class
The various attitudes, beliefs, values an individual holds about themselves. (S.C)
What is Self Concept
This Theory of Development has 4 stages including sensors motor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational.
What is Jean Piaget's cognitive development theory
The interpretation of data to assist in understanding human behaviour.
What is statistical analysis
The physical setting that individuals and groups interact with and are shaped by.
What is Environment.
The sense of self that can be viewed from a personal, social and cultural level.(I)
What is Identity
Impersonal interactions between social institutions such as media, government, law happen at this level of society.
What is Macro Level
The process individuals go through to learn and internalise a society's social norms, customs and beliefs.(S)
What is Socialisation
While Western cultures refer to this period as Adolescence, Indigenous cultures feature these important cultural mile stones to mark transitions in personal development and life stages. (RoP)
What are Rights of Passage
This research method gathers data and information that can be measured and tallied.
What is quantitative
The unique period in which events occur that can be examined as past, present, future.
What is Time.
The process of sharing goods, capital, labour, services, knowledge and culture between countries. (G)
What is Globalisation
The persistence or consistent existence of certain beliefs, customs and cultural values in a society that remain unchanged over time.
What is continuity
Name three agents of socialisation.
Family, Peers/Friends, School, Media
The established relationship between individuals and groups on the basis of socially recognised biological relationships and marriages. (K)
What is Kinship
This research method uses open ended questions to gather in-depth information on people's motivations, thoughts and feelings.
What is qualitative