Key terms (KT)

• Westernization


  The process whereby societies come under or adopt changes in their social systems relative to Western culture.
• Separateness of childhood

  Childhood separates young people/ children from the "real world". After childhood, you must live independently. You are treated like a child and are separated from the real world.
• Culture

  The society that you grew up in can have traditional values and ways of living, that people outside your culture cannot understand unless you give them insight.
• Globalization

  Globalisation in sociology is an ongoing process that involves interconnected changes in the economic, cultural, social and political spheres of society.
• Cult

  A cult is a sociological term for a group that has an exclusive ideology and ritual practices centred on sacred symbols. A cult is usually characterized by lack of organizational structure.
• Industrialization

  Industrialisation is a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial state.
• Print-culture being replaced

  As digital media is growing quite quickly, gradually taking over newspapers.
• Postmodernism

  Postmodernists believe that there is no truth/right or wrong. There is only what works for you. If you do something that upsets someone else, it is their issue. The world has changed so much over the last 30 years, we no longer live in a modern world.
• Futurity

  Futurity is the conviction that the part of the story one is living in is not and cannot be the whole of it.
• March to progress

  The march of progress is a concept in sociology that refers to the assumption that there has been a move from a segregated to an integrated conjugal role. Which refers to a family structure where the roles of the husband and wife are less defined. Whereas segregated conjugal roles refer to a clear distinction in a household. 
• Conflict sociology

  Conflict in sociology refers to a process or a situation in which two or more human beings or groups seek actively to threaten each other’s purposes to prevent each other’s interests, even to the extent of injuring or destroying the other.
• Inequality

  Where there is an unfair situation in society when some people have more opportunities, money, etc. than other people do. Like the fact that the law has done little to prevent racial discrimination.]
• Innocence

  Quality of being simple, pure and unaware of the complexities and troubles of the world.
• Segregation


  The action or state of setting someone apart from others.
• Child-centred family

  The adults occupy the roles of daddy and mommy more than they occupy the roles of husband and wife. Treating the needs of children as a priority over all concepts.
• Age patriarchy


  A term used to describe the inequalities and domination of adults over children. Adults view themselves as higher in the hierarchy of age statuses than children.
• Liberationists


  A person who works or advocates for liberation. (The act of freeing oneself or others from oppression).
• Cathartic


  How you deal with powerful emotions
• Secularisation 


  The decline in the importance of religion in society.