Culture 44 Flashcards
SOCIAL REGISTER
- A way of expressing that a message is addressed to a particular individual.
- For example, a higher-pitched simplified speech is used for communicating with a baby.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY NORM
Dictates how people should help other people who need help or are dependant.
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Arranging the members of a society into a pattern of superior and inferior ranks.
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Ordered interrelationships that are characteristic of particular societies, such as its class structure or system of economic or political relations.
SOCIAL SUPPORT
Help and resourced provided by others for coping.
SOCIAL THEORY
A belief about how variables in the social environment go together.
SOCIALIZATION
A process of behaviours accepted by society.
SOCIOBIOLOGY
Identifies biological and genetic bases for social behaviour in humans and other animals.
SOCIOFUGAL SPACE
- Settings created to discourage conversation among people by making eye contact difficult.
- E.g. Side by side seating in waiting rooms.
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Is the study of relationships between social and linguistic variation or the study of language (performance) in its social context.
SOCIOPETAL SPACE
- Setting that encourage interpersonal interaction through increased eye contact.
- E.g. Cafés, cocktail lounges.
SORORATE
Custom by which a widower marries the sister of the deceased wife.
SPACE INDUSTRIALIZATION
The development of important new manufacturing activities in the environment of outer space.
SPECIALIZATION
Where individuals become experts in producing certain goods or services that are then exchanged.
SPIRIT CULT
A group of adherents to a set of religious beliefs and ritual in which ghosts are believed to interfere in the affairs of the living.
