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25 Cards in this Set
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Society
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Various connections and links people develop to organise themselves
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Culture
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Values, arts, technology, laws and beliefs that bind a society together
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People/persons
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Individuals shaped by their society and culture
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Power
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The ability to influence someone to follow orders/actions that they wouldn't normally follow
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Authority
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The legitimate use of power
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Gender
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The socially constructed differences between a man and a woman.
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Environment
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The physical, physcological and social setting in a society or community
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Time
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The continued progress of existance. Is measured though the terms past, present and future.
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Quantative
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Used to gather large samples, report and evaluate meanings and interpret numbers and trends
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Qualatitive
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Gathered in small samples, is opinion based and includes open ended questions.
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Content analysis
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Reading, watching and listening to specific material and analysing it to aid yourself in your research topic.
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Statistical analysis
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Analysing and interpreting data to discover useful trends.
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Questionaries
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Created to inform your knowledge of the topic and gather a large and diverse sample.
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Interview
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Usually a one on one situation and opinion based
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Observation
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Observing and recording a person/group's behaviour and using your findings to aid your research
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Personal reflection
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Using your own experiences, memories, values and opinions and relating them to your research topic.
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Micro world
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The world you know through personal experience (e.g. friends, family, sport teams)
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Macro world
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The world you know through public knowledge (e.g. historical events, famous people, rapid development of technology)
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Identity
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Your understanding of who you are, why you are that person. It can involve a sense of social, cultural or ethnic identity.
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Continuity and change
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Elements of any society that are relatively unchanged as well as the elements that have changed
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Cross-cultural study
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When you recognise and investigate areas of similarity and difference in specific cultures.
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The agents of socialisation are:
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- School (peers, code and conditioning, life skills, enculturation, widening world view)
- Peers (support group, mentoring, role modelling, conflicting world views, informal rules) - Media - Location |
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Enculturation
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The idea that to be a full member of a culture or sub-culture, individuals have to learn to use, formally and informally, the patterns of cultural behaviour pescribed by the culture
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Acculturation
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The process of contacts between different cultures and also the outcome of such contacts. It may involve direct social interaction or exposure to other cultures through mass media.
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Socialisation
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The process by which we learn to become members of society, by internalising the norms and values of society and learning to perform social roles.
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