ADDITIONAL Concepts
The sense of self.
Refers to the knowledge gained from reflecting on individual experiences.
Personal experience
_______ can be both religious and non-religious.
Beliefs
Norms of morality.
Mores
Every person, society, culture and environment is located in a period of _____ and is changing with _____. _____can be examined as past, present and future.
A process of integration and the sharing of goods, capital, services, knowledge, leisure, sport, ideas and culture between countries.
Globalisation
A social group characterised by (usually) common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction. Typically referred to as the primary agent of socialisation.
Family
Refers to those who are of a similar age group to an individual, or those who share a very similar social status and experiences.
Peers
Also referred to as the silent form of communication, or the manual language.
Non verbal communication
Refers to moral issues of what is right or wrong.
Ethics
The socially constructed differences between females and males. Social life – including family life, roles, work, behaviour and other activities – is organised around the dimensions of this difference.
Gender
Where individuals’ everyday actions and social interactions occur – for example, within families and small-scale social groups.
Micro-level
An agent of socialisation. ______ have the formal responsibility of preparing students for adult life, by teaching them the skills and knowledge most helpful for their involvement in society.
Schools
A society that puts personal independence, freedom, and individual goals ahead of the needs of the group.
Individualist
When individuals behave in certain ways as a result of group pressure, whether real or imagined.
Linked to power and the right to make decisions and to determine, adjudicate or settle issues and disputes in society. Is best understood as the legitimate use of power.
Authority
Shared expectations of behaviour that are considered to be culturally and socially desirable and appropriate.
Norms
Includes television and news broadcasting, radio, newspapers, magazines and social media.
Mass media
A society where people communicate using implicit cues, nonverbal body language, and shared background knowledge rather than relying solely on direct words.
High-context
Technologies used in transmitting information and entertainment between senders and receivers across various media, including newspapers, magazines, movies, broadcast, cable, satellite, radio and the internet.
Communication Technologies
The tools that we use to assist our interactions in society. Can be referred to as innovation and can initiate change to micro, meso and macro operations in society. The value placed on this at any level of society influences the rate of change to society and culture.
Technologies
With a __________ research method, information is collected by counting, and is able to be collated into percentages and then represented by tables and graphs.
Quantitative
A debate that questions whether we are we the way we are because of our genetic and biological disposition or because of the socialisation process and relationships.
Nature vs Nurture debate
An interview is a _______ research method.
Qualitative
An approach to cultural diversity in society that promotes the view that cultural difference should be respected and even encouraged and supported.
Multiculturalism