Key terms L1

• What is Sociology?


  The study of society and development in human behaviour with social changes
• What is an example of social change?


  We have gone from strictly nuclear families to accepted mixed families of all kinds
• What is culture?


  the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.
• What are examples of culture?

  Language, Traditions, Festivals & celebrations, and religion
• What is socialisation?


  How people learn culture, values, and traditions of their society
• What are the consequences of not being socialised?

  Being outcasted from society and judged or becoming feral
• What are social patterns?

  The ways in which society is organised in terms of roles, rules and relationships
• What does it mean to see the familiar as strange?

  Looking at the world through a new perspective as if it hadn't been seen before
• Why is looking at the familiar as strange so difficult?

  Socialisation and our integrated beliefs make everything seem usual
• What is social location?

  Factors that determine peoples chances and how they may act
• What are the factors in social location?

  Gender, race, social class, and religion
• What is social power?


  The influence that a group may have over society or marginalised groups
• What is a marginalised group?


  A group that is outside the circle of power
• How can good policies be created?

  By people understanding inequality to reduce its effects and consequences