8.1 Features of HSC content (concepts)

Question 1

Concepts

What are the fundamental concepts?

Answer 1

P ersons
E nvironment
C ulture
T ime
S ociety

Question 2

Concepts

What are the additional concepts?

Answer 2

T echnology
A uthority
G ender
P ower
I dentity
G lobalisation

Question 3

Fundamental concepts

Define Persons + interactions eg’s

3 dot points

3 eg’s

Answer 3

• Individuals > develop in social & environmental setting
• Influenced by & interacts with others on all 3M’s of society (= identity is created)
• Interactions: communication, sharing values & beliefs, cooperation (3)

Question 4

Fundamental concepts

Define environment + eg’s

3 dot points

5 eg’s

Answer 4

• Physical setting a society is located in & interacts with
• Attitudes & values towards env. affect interactions between PECS (=culture is created)
• Eg, urban, rural, coastal, inland, isolated (5)

Question 5

Fundamental concepts

Define culture + eg’s

3 dot points

9 eg’s

Answer 5

• Shared knowledge, attitudes & behaviours > gives a society coherence, identity & a way of life
• Used to interpret meaning, solve issues
• Eg, beliefs, customs, values, norms, rules, laws, governance, arts, technologies (9)

Question 6

Fundamental concepts

Define time

2 dot points

Answer 6

• Everything is located in a period of itme & is changing with time
• Past events > influence present > suggest possibilities of the future

Question 7

Fundamental concepts

Define society + eg’s

3 dot points

4 eg’s

Answer 7

• People, groups, networks, institutions, organisations, and systems
• Formal & informal groups > interactions > contribute to unique cultures
• Include local, national, regional & international relationships/organisations (4)

Question 8

Additional concepts

Define technology

4 dot points

Answer 8

• Tools used to assist 3M interations within society
• Influences a society and cultures rate of change

Question 9

Additional concepts

Define authority

2 dot points

Answer 9

• The legitimate use of power in decision making to settle issues in society
• Important decision making > initiates change > maintains continuity

Question 10

Additional concepts

Define gender + eg’s

4 dot points

4 eg’s

Answer 10

• Socially constructed differences: females><males
• Social life organised around dimensions of difference
• Reflects value society places on social constructs
• Refers to cultural ideals, identities, sexual division of labour (institutions/organisations), stereotypes (masculinity/femininity) (4)

Question 11

Additional concepts

Define power

2 dot points

Answer 11

• The ability/capacity to influence/persuade others to a pov to which they may not always agree to
• Initiates/prevents change

Question 12

Additional concepts

Define identity + contributing factors eg’s

3 dot points

9 eg’s

Answer 12

• Personal, social & cultural sense of self formed overtime (= by interactions between 3M’s)
• Sense of inclusion in a group/culture
• Contributing factors: gender, sexuality, family, class, ethnicity, beliefs, social status, group membership, national pride (9)

Question 13

Additional concepts

Define globalisation

3 dot points

Answer 13

• Processes of interaction & intergration among persons, companies, & governments worldwide
• Sharing/exchanging goods = transnational consupmtion and consumerism
• Assisted by technologies & media intergration