Fundamental Concepts
Made up of people, groups, networks, institutions, organisations and systems.
What is society?
The ability or capacity to influence or persuade others to a point of view or action to which they may not always agree
What is power?
The persistence or consistent existence of cultural elements in a society across time.
What is continuity?
A set of opinions or convictions; ideas we believe in as the truth
What is a belief?
A set of stories or traditions that provide a framework for societies to explain or support a belief or practice.
What is mythology?
Unique individuals who develops in a social and environmental setting in which he or she is influenced by, and interacts with, other persons and groups
Define persons
The socially constructed differences between females and males
What is gender
These have the ability to culturally unify a group of people through their representation and meaning
What is a symbol?
The underlying principle or set of ideas that contains a way of thinking and behaving that makes up a broad field of knowledge or doctrine of thought.
What is philosophy?
The process of selecting and using a product
What is consumption?
The shared knowledge, attitudes and behaviours that give each society its coherence, identity and distinctive way of life
What is culture?
The process of integration and sharing of goods, capital, labour, services, knowledge, leisure, sport, ideas and culture between countries.
What is globalisation?
The process of structural change that creates a slow alteration in the institutions or social roles of a society that are then integrated into that society.
What is Evolutionary change?
A process whereby religion loses its influence over the various spheres of social life
What is secularisation
Commercial products such as accessories, clothing, magazines, toys and equipment
What is paraphernalia?
A particular physical setting that presents societies and their cultures with both opportunities and constraints.
What is environment?
The right to make decisions and to determine, adjudicate or settle issues and disputes in society.
What is authority?
A process whereby personal and social structures and systems work to create broad-based social change that completely alters existing structures within society
What is transformative change?
A particular philosophy of life or conception of the world that is characterised by an organised and accepted set of ideas that attempts to explain the social, cultural, physical and psychological world.
What is a worldview?
A social process by which an item is prepared in readiness to be traded. The process relies on marketing strategies with the aim of producing a perceived value in the item.
What is commodification?
Best studied in context – last century, this century, and pre- and post-events – or as a particular decade. Also studied in relation to continuity and change.
What is time?
All the tools that we use to assist our interactions in society
What is technology?
A theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.
What is functionalist theory?
The Buddha, the fully enlightened one, The Dharma, the teachings expounded by the Buddha and The Sangha, the monastic order of Buddhism that practice Dharmas.
What are the 3 jewels of Buddhism?
A person with an interest or concern in something
What is a stakeholder?