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Research
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To become socially and culturally literate.

What is the aim of society and culture?

100

Ethical research also means that any material from sources other than the researcher’s own work is clearly acknowledged. You will do this in assessment by creating a...

What is bibliography?

100

An instrument with a series of questions in it.

What is a questionare?

100

The set of rules the Amish follow?

What is the Ordnung?

100

Where individuals’ everyday actions and social interactions occur – for example, within families and small-scale social groups.

What is Micro World?

200

The process by which individuals learn to become functioning members of society by internalising the roles, norms and values of that society.

What is Socialisation?

200

Quantitative research methods are...

What is statistical data or ones that can be counted?

200

This method involves the researcher and the a person in a one-to-one situation and may be quite time consuming.

What is an interview?

200

The people that have the authority in the Amish community...

What is the Council of Elders?

200

The ‘big picture’ – the wider social structure, social processes and their interrelationships. Macro-level society includes those social institutions – such as the media, the law, the workplace and the government – that help to shape the social and cultural world.

What is Macro World?

300

The ability or capacity to influence or persuade others to a point of view or action to which they would not normally agree.

What is Power?

300

Qualitative methods are ones that are...

that require data that cannot be quantified 

300

The social researcher immerses herself in the social setting under study, getting to know key actors in that location in a role which is either covert or overt, although in practice, the researcher will often move between these two roles. The aim is to experience events in the manner in which the subjects under study also experience these events.

What is Participant Observation?

300

The time period an Amish member has to experience life with a perdom of English decent.

What is Rumschpringes?

300

A society that comprises a range of social and cultural influences and components, rather than having a homogenous identity.

What is Hybrid Society?

400

An organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.

What is a Society?

400

A strength of Quantitive method is that...

What is fast?

400

A statistical exercise that involves counting, categorising and interpreting words and images from documents, film, art, music and other cultural products and media in relation to an aspect or quality of social life. When used as a qualitative method, content analysis helps the researcher to understand social life through analysis and interpretation of words and images from documents, film, art, music and other cultural artefacts and media.

What is Content Analysis?

400

Name 3 of the places that the Amish live

Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York, Maine, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Montana and Washington (and Ontario, Canada)

400

The name of the Heinz dilemma was testing which type of development.

What is moral development?

500

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

What is Continuity?

500

Apply the research methods to be used. Is step....

What is Step 5 in Social and Cultural research?

500

Examining data to interpret meaning, make generalisations and extrapolate trends. Often the data is in graphical form. Because data is expressed in the language of mathematics, they should be evaluated and interpreted by means of appropriate mathematical or statistical procedures.

What is Statistical Analysis?

500

If I were to be respectful of Amish cultural norms, I would be

a socially culturally literate person 

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The middle ground where individuals interact within groups such as schools, communities, church groups and neighbourhoods. It focuses on relationships between middle-level social structures and the individual.
What is Meso World?