Discipline in social sciences

Cards (49)

  • Social media
    Technical technology that allows the sharing of ideas and information, including text and visuals through virtual networks
  • Interpersonal relationship
    Social association, connection or affiliation between two or more persons
  • Family bonding
    • Brings family members closer together through mutual interests, hobbies and other activities
  • Gender
    Characteristics of women, men that are socially constructed
  • Society
    Community of people living together in a more or less ordered community
  • Culture
    All the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation
  • Human behavior
    Potential and expressed capacity of human individuals to respond to internal and external stimuli throughout their life
  • Poverty
    Condition in which a person lacks the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living
  • Education
    Act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment
  • Social mobility
    Degree to which one's social status can change, promotion or downward mobility
  • Mental health
    Includes emotional, psychological and social well-being
  • Social well-being
    Building and maintaining healthy relationships and having meaningful authentic interactions with others
  • Globalization
    Growing interdependence of the world's economies, cultures and populations
  • Local communities
    Group of people interacting and living in a common location
  • Homogenization
    Uniform or similar culture of people
  • Media
    Means or channels of general communication, information or entertainment in society as news papers, radio and television
  • Public opinion
    Opinions that people in society have about an issue
  • Political discourse
    Any practice by which individuals imbue reality with meaning
  • Immigration
    Process through which individuals become permanent citizens of another country
  • Emigration
    Act of leaving one's country
  • Social integration
    Process during which newcomers are incorporated into the social structure of the host society
  • Cultural diversity
    Existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society
  • Religion
    Service and worship of God or the supernatural
  • Social norms
    Unwritten rules that define acceptable and appropriate actions within a community
  • Technology
    Application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes especially in industry
  • Social interact
    Exchange of ideas between two or more individuals and is a building block of society
  • Communication pattern
    Type of communication which have been established through repetition and have become so automatic as to continue without conscious awareness
  • Social class
    Division of a society based on social end economic status
  • Resources
    Supply of money, materials and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively
  • Discrimination
    Unjust treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, race and religion
  • Prejudice
    Biased thinking, consists of actions against a group of people
  • Marginalized groups
    Includes women, people with disabilities, color, LGBTQ, indigenous, lower socio economic status
  • Social equality
    State of affairs in which all individuals within a specific society have equal rights, liberties and status
  • Crime
    Action or omission that constitutes an offense that maybe prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law
  • Poverty
    Lack of adequate financial resources of individuals and households
  • Unemployment
    Condition of one who is capable of working but unable to find any work
  • Social movement
    Collective action taken by a group of people to tackle social problems
  • Social change
    Alteration of the social order of a society which may include changes in social institutions
  • Political activism
    Efforts to promote, impede (prevent) direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform in the society
  • Socialism
    Political and economic theory of social of social organizations which advocates that the means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned by the community as a whole