Social and Cultural Change and Continuity
Japan
Research Methods
Pop Culture
B.S&I
100

Slow change that happens overtime in society causing long-lasting or permanent change.

What is Evolutionary Change?

100

It has five aims to change the nature of the workforce.

What is womenomics? 

100

Closed-ended questionnaires are an example of primary and ------- research.

What is Quantitative?

100

Better CGI, increase use of Social media for trailers and fandom connection, Increase of platforms to access SF e.g. Disney+ are all examples of _______ impacting how consumers can experience the SF Pop Culture. 

What is technology?

100

The Creator of Buddhism.

Who is Siddhartha Gautama? 

200

The persistence of consistent existence of cultural elements in a society across time.

What is continuity?

200

The former Prime Minister who established womenomics.

Who is Shinzo Abe?

200

Focus groups can be considered primary and -------?

What is qualitative?

200

A social process by which an item is turned into a commodity (sellable item) in readiness to be traded.

What is Commodification? 

200

An organised collection or body of ideas that reflects the beliefs, values and interests of a group, system, institution or nation creating a collective and coherent structure of thinking.

What is Ideology?

300

A social process where the values, customs and practices of Western industrial capitalism are adopted to form the basis of cultural change.

What is Westernisation?

300

The Japanese term for maternity discrimination.

What is "Mata  Hara"?

300

Ensuring anonymity of a participant in observation is an example of this type of consideration. 

What is an Ethical consideration?

300

One of the four distinguishing characteristics of Popular Culture.

What are: 

associated with commercial products or paraphernalia;

Develops from local to global; 

Achieves widespread consumer access; 

Is constantly changing and evolving?

300

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 Worldview?

400

Social Institutions adapt to maintain equilibrium in society. 

What is functionalism?

400

It came after the Tokugawa Shogunate and before the American Occupation. 

What is the Meiji Restoration?

400

Researchers in THIS research method quantify and analyse the presence, meanings and relationships of words and concepts in a text or series of texts, then make inferences about the messages within the texts, the writer(s), the audience, and even the culture and time of which these are a part.

What is Content Analysis?

400

In a scene where two females are talking and they discuss a man each time, the film is said to have failed what test?

What is the Bechdel Test?

400

The three most widespread forms of Buddhism.

What are Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana?

500

It's what S.T.E.E.P stands for.

What is Socio-Cultural, Technological, Environmental, Economic and Political Processes?

500

The business networks that now have power after the Zaibatsu were disbanded.

Who are the Keiretsu?

500

Not secondary research, THIS research method can also involve multiple other research methods within it, for example Interviews, participant observation and focus groups.

What is a case study?

500

In SF,

- Good triumphs over evil

- Easter Eggs

- Self-sacrifice is always right

etc are all examples of what?

What is Modern mythology?

500

The Tripitaka and the Lotus Sutra are examples of these in Buddhism.  

What are sacred texts?

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