Trends (LESSON 6)

• Parts


  Subdivisions into which something is or is regarded as divided and which together constitute the whole
• Whole


  The completeness of the parts or components
• We are the parts

  The society is the whole
• Important factors to consider as part of the whole society

  • Primary Identity or Individuation
  • Secondary Identity
• Primary Identity or Individuation

  The concept of personal identity, the norms that an individual learns through the society
• Primary Identity or Individuation

  • Values
  • Attitudes
  • Beliefs
• Secondary Identity


  Also known as social identity, the roles and statuses that the individual has to perform as part of his society
• Status


  An individual's position in society which carries with it a set of defined rights and obligations
• Roles


  The sets of expectation which occupy a particular status
• Six principles of gestalt laws applied to global networks

  • Figure
  • Similarity
  • Proximity
  • Closure
  • Continuity
  • Symmetry or Order
• Figure


  The people in a nation which may vary in terms of color, size etc.
• Similarity


  Things which share characteristics such as shape, size, color, texture, and good composition (geographical setting and characteristics of different nation)
• Proximity


  Objects or shapes that are close to one another appear to form groups, even if the shapes, sizes, and objects are radically different
• Closure


  The provision of missing details to be a part of potential pattern or once closure is achieved, the elimination of details unnecessary to establish a pattern match
• Continuity


  Things tend to continue shapes beyond their ending points (interconnections to cross countries essence of globalization or evolution of generation)
• Symmetry or Order


  Connotes stability and peace and order, like sets of instruction or reference