Concepts
The context in which we live our lives. Our family, friends, sporting groups, schools and workplaces make up this concept.
Society
The development of a systematic process for examining the subject matter of a source of information.
Content Analysis
A non-linear process that affects the dynamics of society.
Change
The process of adding value to an idea, product or commodity with the aim of selling it and making a profit.
Commercialisation
A set of opinions or convictions.
Beliefs
Our lifestyle, the way we speak, our beliefs. It forms who we are.
Culture
A conversation that takes place between two people with the purpose of sharing specific information.
Interview
A type of change, where it is incremental and occurs over a long period of time.
Evolutionary
A social process by which an item is turned into a commodity in readiness to be traded.
Commodification
A series of actions or rites performed according to a prescribed order.
Rituals
The ability or capacity to influence or persuade others.
Power
Joining a group and attempting to become one of them in order to understand a topic.
Participant Observation
A type of change, that is more dramatic and rapid.
Transformative Change
The process of selecting and using a product
Consumption
Examples of this include: Humanism, environmentalism, Confucianism and feminism.
Ideology
The right to make decisions and to determine, adjudicate or settle issues and disputes in society. The legitimate use of power.
Authority
Preparing questions and distributing copies to a group of people. Can gather both qualitative and quantitative data.
Questionnaire
What does the acronym STEEP stand for? StEEP refers to process of social change.
Socio-Cultural, Technological, Economic, Environmental and Political
Name three factors that can affect access to a pop culture.
Age, class, ethnicity, location and institutional power.
Reinforces authority, provides a clear chain or communication, and set the agenda tone and teachings of an organisation.
Heirarchy
The process of integration and sharing of goods, capital, labour, services, knowledge, leisure, sports and ideas.
Globalisation
Becoming aware of work already conducted within the field, identifying this work, sourcing it and discussing it to support your own research.
Secondary Research
A theory of change that theorises that individuals and groups compete for resources which results in a struggle for power and control, which leads to change.
Conflict Theory
Fenech's number one pop culture song of 2021.
Good for you by Olivia Rodrigo
A process whereby religion loses its influence over the various spheres of social life.
Secularisation